Ok. So is there some rule of thumb we could formulate about whether or not a specific BCP 47 should be allowed for Wikidata?
2016-11-23 6:26 GMT+01:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>: > 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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