| Esc3300 added a comment. |
I expanded the description above. Here a few precisions and an explanation of a possible solution.
- The other day we looked into the way that the dialect of Finnish place names should be specified (discussion, WP article on some).
- It seems that a few may have ISO codes/IETF tags, other don't. In the current way monolingual text codes work, I think one would first have to ask the relevant administrator for these tag to define a variant tag and then wait for WMDE to add them. Alternatively, if we leave the interface open as we do for new item, one could just make up a code on the fly. The later isn't really desirable.
- To ensure that the variant is identified, one would need to define it through a QID of an item. This as not all variants have IETF-tags or have IETF-tags known to Wikidata.
- Whenever possible, output should use IETF tags. These could be defined on the item of the language.
- If no IETF is defined, the item of the language could also offer a fallback. (just "fi" instead of "fi- hämäläismurteet").
- Once in a while, we could request new IETF tags for variants that need them.
- To simplify input by users (and bots/tools), it should be possible to input IETF tags (e.g. "de") instead of a QID.
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