https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37704

--- Comment #4 from Siebrand <[email protected]> 2012-06-19 01:14:42 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> The use case is being able to display the name of a language in a particular
> language.
> 
> e.g. in an article (content language), or in the interface (interlanguage
> sidebar, bug 37703, user language).
> 
> I found out just now that a hook for this exists
> (LanguageGetTranslatedLanguageNames), but it doesn't do anything by default.
> Without an extension ("Extension:CLDR", I presume) it doesn't do anything. So
> unless that is merged in core, we can't use it to (for example):
> * render language names in the sidebar in the user language
> * use it from wikitext to display language names in the content language
> 
> If for some reason it must not be merged in core, we could maybe create an
> extension that depends on CLDR and implements the above 2 features?

IIRC you can just call the core methods, and if CLDR or similar is installed,
it will try to provide a localised name; if that's not available it will do as
it's always done. Having it in core is not a requirement, you just need to
update the way that interlanguage link language names are resolved. WFM, I
think.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Also, although there is a large amount of content there, it seems the list in
> CLDR is still somewhat incomplete:
> 
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/cldr.git;a=tree;f=LocalNames;h=97bb656aaec4ad1baaebd03e3d423ddddc7d35cf;hb=HEAD
> 
> Is that upstream cldr or maintained at translatewiki?

Upstream. And that's what it will remain as long as translatewiki.net cannot be
a bulk data supplier for Unicode's CLDR. This is the type of duplication I don
not believe in.

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