Hoi,
The interface is localised from English at translatewiki.net. Localisation
has always been done as part of the requirements for a new project. The
ability to localise happens after the language committee indicates that a
language is "eligible". There are all kinds of complications with the use
of only ISO-639-3 codes. This has proven to be problematic in the past. As
a consequence the policy has it that certainly for a living language
eligibility is almost guaranteed. The policy has it that the committee is
allowed to think and decide.
So no, it is not up the community and for as long as the language committee
exists it has not been.
When people use whatever string of characters to identify a file on
Commons.. they can.. who cares it is just an identifier. When people add a
label in Wikidata it has to be in the language specified.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 30 June 2014 09:26, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 29.06.2014 16:06, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
> > Hoi,
> > Making languages available for projects is something that is done
> according to
> > the Wikimedia language policy. In it there is no say at all for the
> community.
> > The reason being that this proved to be very political and consequently
> very
> > disruptive.
>
> I was under the impression that this applies to making a *project*
> available in
> a new language. Which means splitting/duplicating the content along the
> language
> boundary - which of course is very political.
>
> I was not aware that the same applies to *interface* languages.
>
> Wikidata of course is special in that you can mix and match content in any
> interface language. Do you think the language policy applies, or should
> apply,
> to which languages can be used e.g. in image descriptions on commons, or
> for
> labels on wikidata? Until now, I was under the impression that this was up
> to
> the community alone.
>
> -- daniel
>
>
> --
> Daniel Kinzler
> Senior Software Developer
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland
> Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
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