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Interesting data, the question is what conclusions to draw from it for practical use cases at Wikidata. Initially the property "unit symbol" had string datatype, possibly because of a similar reasoning as the above. Latin script unit symbols were deemed useful for any language. After property proposal for what would be "unit symbol" (P5061) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/unit_symbol_(change_datatype)> this was changed to monolingual string as the units for languages written in Cyrillic don't use Latin script symbols. Essentially, we would have "t"@en for all Latin script languages and "т"@ru, "т"@uk (sample from Q191118 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191118>). If "mul" will be "mul-latn", as other languages wont generally have a use "mul", the question is if "mul" should include non-Latin script text at all (or not). - If it does include non-Latin script text, it may include strings that are not useful for non Latin script languages - If it shouldn't include non-Latin script text, it's not clear what the use should be for languages that aren't written in Latin script if any. Also, it may be similar to the current use of "en". The conclusion for use cases above may be that we should create "mul-latn" only. Maybe some insight could be gained from languages where we currently have three codes, e.g. sr, sr-Latn, sr-Cyr where "sr" can contain either. I wonder how and where it's actually used. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285156 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Esc3300 Cc: Esc3300, Ash_Crow, Moebeus, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, So9q, Ainali, Epidosis, Shushugah, Manuel, Nikki, Mbch331, jhsoby, Amire80, Lydia_Pintscher, ChristianKl, Mahir256, Aklapper, Invadibot, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude
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