Keet10 added a comment.
above-mentioned ISO 639 (1, 2 or 3) and glottolog and ethnologue (https://www.ethnologue.com/) and the like indeed do have some issues, but I think some support (e.g., populating Wikidata with any one or all of them) would be preferred over the “no support but with a ‘mis’ hack or a ‘code in the spelling variant textbox’ hack after error messages in the interface in Wikidata” status quo. Or at least those languages that are in some way an official language in the country/countries where they are spoken, and at least those for which there is a Wikipedia. For instance, isiNdebele / Ndebele (ISO 639-3 nbl or nr, and nde or nd), being one of the 11 official languages in South Africa is not recognised by Wikidata to add lexeme data, even though it has Wikipedia entries (south and north, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndebele) and a Wikidata entry as single language https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13155057. And likewise (even more so?) for another oicial langauge of South Africa, Sepedi/Pedi/Northern Sotho/Sesotho sa Leboa (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33890), that does have its own Wikipedia https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letlakala_la_pele but that somehow still gives an error in the “create a new lexeme” page as an unrecognised language after I selected the language from the drop-down list (putting ‘nso’ in the spelling variant box after the error message made it work, but). I’ve tried these with lexemes gauta and phiri (nso) and umuntu (isiNdebele). If the Wikis want to be more inclusive, recognising languages without the interface errors and workarounds is an imperative. (for context: I stumbled upon this issue whilst trying to add sample lexeme data to WikiData for the NLG component of Abstract Wikipedia.) TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289776 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Keet10 Cc: Keet10, mrephabricator, Poslovitch, Fralambert, Tcr25, Bugreporter, mxn, Sabon_Harshe, Aklapper, Wangombe, Astuthiodit_1, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, PallaviPatke, maantietaja, Rileych, ItamarWMDE, Akuckartz, 50019062, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, Mahir256, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Soum213, Taiwania_Justo, Scott_WUaS, Nikki, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Nikerabbit, Arrbee, santhosh, KartikMistry, Mbch331
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