Bugreporter added a comment.
> CLDR seems to be defacto used as a repository for names for language codes that happen to be used by people. Not at all as an authoritative source for language codes. Are we ok with using it anyway? The CLDR extension currently provides: - Some terms (including name of days of week, months, languages) in several language, which is provided by the Common Locale Data Repository project of the Unicode Consortium - Additional English name for languages defined in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/cldr/%2B/HEAD/LocalNames/LocalNamesEn.php - Additional name of languages in some other languages (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/cldr/+/HEAD/LocalNames), which may be severly incomplete (e.g. we have French, German but not Spanish) until T231755: Local language name should be translatable in translatewiki <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231755> is fixed. The Names.php together with $wmgExtraLanguageNames provides autonyms of languages. The language-data provides more autonyms of languages (all current language in Names.php are in language-data but not vice versa). Currently the main use of the library is the frontend lan guage selector (UniversalLanguageSelector), but it is proposed to replace Names.php (T190129 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190129>) and also CLDR extension (T281067 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281067>). TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341409 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Bugreporter Cc: Michael, ItamarWMDE, Bugreporter, thiemowmde, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, jhsoby, Amire80, Lydia_Pintscher, Manuel, mrephabricator, Nikki, Danny_Benjafield_WMDE, Astuthiodit_1, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, Mahir256, QZanden, srishakatux, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
_______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list -- wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikidata-bugs-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
