On 01/17/2011 12:52 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > 2011/1/17 Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongm...@gmail.com>: >> I looked around, but as far as I can find MediaWiki only has the names >> in their native language available. >> > That's right, the English names aren't stored by MediaWiki. I guess if > we did that we'd have to have every language's name in every other > language, which would be a huge amount of data (371 languages, so we'd > need 371*371=137,641 translations). Its not much different from adding an extension with 371 msg keys, we have like ~3K msg keys just core no? You could look at as adding 10% more messages.
I would support having localised listing of languages. it would make language selection widgets a lot easier to follow. This list could be seeded from a digital source relativity easily. What to translate wiki folks think? --michael _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
