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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