Op 18-01-11 05:41 schreef Michael Dale <md...@wikimedia.org>: >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? The translatewiki.net folks think they love the Unicode CLDR project[1] and fully support further use of the CLDR extension. Also see bug 16699[2] which was created over two years ago.
We would love to be a front for the CLDR project, but we've never had the right contacts and time to enter a dialog with them[3]. We are against creating and supporting an extension that would duplicate the CLDR efforts. Cheers! Siebrand [1] http://cldr.unicode.org/ [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16699 [3] https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Todo _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
