Nikki added a comment.
In T341409#9337791 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341409#9337791>, @Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE wrote: > The only one I can’t make any sense of is `dlc`, which MediaWiki says is “Dalecarlian”, yet Dalecarlian language <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalecarlian_language> doesn’t mention a `dlc` language code. Apparently the cldr extension (but not the actual CLDR) took it from Ethnologue in 2008. I think this one should be removed from the CLDR extension. It's not a valid code and when I checked the other day, I wasn't able to find any current use of that code, nor anyone requesting it in the first place. It was just suddenly added in https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-cldr/commit/45e8e42c040a5be96f380d48aea52819db7f1c7e with no explanation. Some history of the `dlc` code: Before ISO 639-3 was a thing, Ethnologue used its own set of codes (using uppercase letters). The 14th edition (2000) had an entry for Dalecarlian under the code `DLC` (link <http://web.archive.org/web/20040823065818/http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=DLC>). For the 15th edition (2005), they switched to using codes from the draft ISO 639-3 standard (using lowercase letters). The 15th edition had an entry for `dlc`, saying that was also the ISO 639-3 code (link <http://web.archive.org/web/20060325215749/http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=dlc>). ISO 639-3 was published in 2007 and did not include an entry for `dlc` or "Dalecarlian". The 16th edition (2009) did not include `dlc` any more (link <http://web.archive.org/web/20121002221414/http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=dlc>). ISO 639-3 codes were not added to the IETF/IANA/BCP 47 subtag registry until much later, in 2009, so it didn't get included there either. I assume `dlc` was in the draft version of ISO 639-3 and was removed before it was officially published, and then was removed from Ethnologue too, but it had already been added to LocalNamesEn.php by then. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341409 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: hoo, Nikki Cc: Jdforrester-WMF, Winston_Sung, Nemo_bis, Michael, ItamarWMDE, Bugreporter, thiemowmde, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, jhsoby, Amire80, Lydia_Pintscher, Manuel, mrephabricator, Nikki, Danny_Benjafield_WMDE, Isabelladantes1983, Themindcoder, Adamm71, Jersione, Hellket777, LisafBia6531, Astuthiodit_1, 786, Biggs657, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, maantietaja, Juan90264, Alter-paule, Beast1978, Un1tY, Akuckartz, Hook696, Kent7301, joker88john, CucyNoiD, Nandana, Gaboe420, Giuliamocci, Cpaulf30, Lahi, Gq86, Af420, Bsandipan, GoranSMilovanovic, Mahir256, QZanden, srishakatux, LawExplorer, Lewizho99, Maathavan, _jensen, rosalieper, Neuronton, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
_______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
