Hoi,
Yes. But the point is that our position has always been that for a language
we accept ISO-639-3 for Wikidata without a localisation effort. For BCP 47
we have not done so and there is not the same blanket need to accept them.
When a BCP 47 needs a different date format, it is a matter of localisation
to make that happen. It is not what this do in Wikidata.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 23 November 2016 at 01:44, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2016 00:47, "MF-Warburg" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
>
> That was just an example, not the best one. The point is that Wikidata
> operates with the open set of words and that we could easily come into the
> position to force a user to read even something completely strangr to him
> or her.
>
> For example, the term Art Noveau/Secession and similar could easily become
> a category and a difference between the two varieties. And by reading one
> variety, a user could come into position not to understand that.
>
> I could find a lot of such potential pairs between Serbian and Croatian,
> which are distant on similar level as Spanish varieties, so it's not hard
> to me to imagine that keeping strict ISO 639-3 codes instead of BCP 47
> could make confusion.
>
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