Daniel, I agree, but isn't that what Multilingual Text requires? A language code?
I.e. how does the current model plan to solve that? I assume most of it is hidden behind mini-wizards like "Create a new lexeme", which actually make sure the multitext language and the language property are consistently set. In that case I can see this work. On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:11 AM Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 10.04.2017 um 18:56 schrieb Gerard Meijssen: > > Hoi, > > The standard for the identification of a language should suffice. > > I know no standard that would be sufficient for our use case. > > For instance, we not only need identifiers for German, Swiss and Austrian > German. We also need identifiers for German German before and after the > spelling > reform of 1901, and before and ofter the spelling reform of 1996. We will > also > need identifiers for the "language" of mathematical notation. And for > various > variants of ancient languages: not just Sumerian, but Sumerian from > different > regions and periods. > > The only system I know that gives us that flexibility is Wikidata. For > interoperability, we should provide a standard language code (aka subtag). > But a > language code alone is not going to be sufficient to distinguish the > different > variants we will need. > > -- > Daniel Kinzler > Principal Platform Engineer > > Wikimedia Deutschland > Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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