Nicolas, thanks for making things clear!

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Nicolas VIGNERON
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm quite confused by this discussion and I'm not even sure why there is a
> discussion here in the first place...
>
> Wikidata has a help page for almost a year now :
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Monolingual_text_languages where it's
> clearly stated new code are ok, as long at it's a valid BCP 47 code and used
> in a real case. And it's written : « A language code does not have to
> fulfill the requirements of the language proposal policy for new Wikis. » ;
> and indeed, a lot of lang code where added, AFAIK the lang com never even
> talked about it (at least not when the « und », « mis », « mul » and « zxx »
> codes where added last year : https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72205 ).
>
> For me this help page seems pretty straigthforward. And more pratically, if
> there is no code for Canadian French, people will just keep going to use the
> code « mis » with a qualifier like in the given usage example (here :
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q145992 ) which seems way worse to me.
>
> Cdlt, ~nicolas

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