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 >
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