https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34967
--- Comment #3 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2012-03-04 20:17:02 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #0) > > Third, the "language" parameter doesn't specify what kind of language code > > you're looking for. Two letters? Three letters? > > How many letters are there in "zh-min-nan"? > > > As this is technical documentation, if there's a technical answer here > > (such as > > ISO-639-2 or ISO-639-3 or whatever), you can say so. :-) You can also > > cross-reference to some other list of language codes if possible (maybe > > they're > > exposed in action=sitematrix or elsewhere?). > > And which of them standardises "simple" or "be-x-old"? > > We have *MediaWiki* language codes and nothing else, now matter how much we > pretend that it's not the case. Okay, so is there a way to list "MediaWiki language codes"? The current documentation reads kind of like magic. People need to be able to read it and figure out what you mean by language codes. Provide documentation or cross-reference to list=mediawikilanguagecodes or something, right? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
