2016-11-22 15:33 GMT+01:00 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>:

> I don't think it's true at the moment, but imagine the next integration:
>
> * A person is born on year/January/date. That's the data Wikipedia
> should take from Wikidata.
> * A user says "I am a German from Germany" and has that as
> localization, instead of default Austrian version.
> * What's the method of telling Wikidata to give German German January
> instead of Austrian German January inside of the infobox?
>

Well, as dates in Wikidata are not stored as "5. Jänner 1980" in the first
place, that seems no problem. The infobox' code will simply translate
1980-01-05 differently, depending on the users' language settings. Or am I
mistaken?




> I am sure there are similar peculiarities between fr_FR and fr_CA.
>
> If it's been solved in other ways, it's OK not to have fr_CA. If not,
> it's reasonable to expect that Wikidata should cover such things and
> add fr_CA as a Wikidata-only language.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > We do have different forms of English but they do include a requirement
> for
> > localisation. With ISO-639-3 languages we truly have different languages
> > with dialects we do not have the same rationale why having Wikidata
> support
> > is a necessity.
> > Thanks,
> >      GerardM
> >
> > On 21 November 2016 at 13:54, Oliver Stegen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks, Gerard, for bringing this issue to our attention.
> >>
> >> As far as I can see, different Frenches are comparable to different
> >> Englishes. I understand that we allow a difefrence between American and
> >> British English. Do we also have separate support for Australian
> English,
> >> Indian English, South African English etc?
> >>
> >> If we are to differentiate between French French and Canadian French,
> what
> >> about Swiss French, West African French etc?
> >>
> >> In any case, I agree that such distinctions should be Wikidata only.
> >>
> >> Looking forward to hearing your (pl.!) opinion(s) on this, and with best
> >> wishes,
> >> Oliver
> >>
> >>
> >> On 21-Nov-16 12:48, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> >>
> >> Hoi,
> >> For languages with an ISO-639-3 code it is OK to have Wikidata support
> >> them. For French and in particular Canadian French the same rationale
> does
> >> not exist.
> >>
> >> What is our opinion about including Canadian French as a Wikidata only
> >> language? In my opinion it is only through the same way as it is done
> for
> >> British English that this is fine.
> >> Thanks,
> >>      GerardM
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151186
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Langcom mailing list
> >> [email protected]
> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Langcom mailing list
> >> [email protected]
> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
> >>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Langcom mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Langcom mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
>
_______________________________________________
Langcom mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom

Reply via email to