No need to do translations from scratch, since other people already maintain them:
http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/ Look at iso_639 and iso_639_3. Regards, ~~helix84 On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 16:45, Michael Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > > Small thread on api list about localising languages lists.. I think it would > be worth while. I don't think it would be too costly to the translate > community, especially if we seeded it from some digital source. > > Do people know of a good source for localised language lists? If nothing else > the inter-wiki links on the wikipedia article for each language might be a > good start. > > --michael > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] is there a way to get the English name of a > language? > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:41:51 -0600 > From: Michael Dale <[email protected]> > Reply-To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion > <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > On 01/17/2011 12:52 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > > 2011/1/17 Bryan Tong Minh <[email protected]>: > >> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n > _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
