https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21791
Summary: migration of names.php to a relational model using ISO-
639-3, ISO 15924, directionality, variants, etc.
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Internationalization
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Dear friends,
One should think about migrating names.php to a futere more accepted
(relationatiol) model. Main internet sites are using language codes which have
a different meaning and mapping gets more and more an issue.
On the other side the available localizations for (actual) MediaWiki language
codes and the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation have accumulated much
knowledge about how to get a large acceptance. The "etc." in the subject
includes site setup with different default font families textsize and
instructions how to configure computers to represent the content properly (
http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39388 etc. ).
I assume that seting up wikis requiring other mixed or font families then from
the large projects need a lot of additional configurattion which could be
provided directly by Mediawiki.
If the information about proper representation is available in MediaWiki one
could use magix words as {{FOO-Arab:bar}} beside {{FOO-Tibt:bar}} without much
configuration. The model should include handling of language script variants as
those available today for Kurdish, Serbian etc. languages. Directionality will
automatically inherit from the script directionality.
Additional information as the ethnologogue classifications (language,
metalanguage, dialect, dispute?, extinct, constructed etc.) might clarify what
is the code about. Beside the mentioned technical help one might link to the
main article about the "language" at English Wikipedia. It is self evident that
the values for {{lang:}} should be preserved.
This might start a ling discussion. Please let it happen in whatever wiki
(meta: mediawiki: ...) and please avoid a list.
Thanks for all efforts in advance!
Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]
P.S. {{FOO-Arab:bar}}, {{FOO-Tibt:bar}} etc. can be sonsidered as a syntax
expansion. They might be used or agreed with another popular sites.
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