Hi! > 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
Theoretically, BCP 47 should be able to handle this? E.g. they have sl-IT-rozaj-biske-1994 as an example. But we probably shouldn't try to construct these tags ourselves, but instead let editors specify them. > need identifiers for the "language" of mathematical notation. And for > various That's where using zxx-math or something like that would be useful? Or we could omit any tags from those at all. > 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. I think it can be, using BCP 47 extensions, but Wikidata team should not be taking care of it - instead, Wikidata editors should do it by assigning language tag properties to specific Wikidata items. -- Stas Malyshev [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
