Hi, Some time ago I made a comparison of MediaWiki and CLDR names, see http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:SPQRobin/languages . I find it also important to have the right language names, and to be consistent/efficient. Something I've been thinking about for some time is to change names in MediaWiki from always uppercase to lowercase where that's normal (as in CLDR).
Also, I am planning to include all English language names (from ISO 639-3) in MediaWiki. Including native names from CLDR in core is more difficult, but we could perhaps do that in the future and then fallback where possible, as you propose. 2012/4/13 Shervin Afshar <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Two weeks ago Amir submitted a request to the mailing list asking folks to > review the list of language names available in Names.php: > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=blob;f=languages/Names.php;hb=HEAD > > The request was followed up by few issues noticed for Czech, Slovak, and > some other languages. It's obvious that by relying only on available input > from the community, one can not make sure that the rest of the data is > correct. Given this I recommended doing a minimal implementation of CLDR > data. Here's what I wrote to Amir: > >> I skimmed through the list and haven't seen anything incorrect. I have a >> question though; considering the fact that some of this data is available in >> CLDR, have you ever considered integrating their data and then do a >> fallback? The fallback would definitely be necessary in some cases because >> your list is *way* more extensive than what CLDR currently supports. >> >> Of course, CLDR specs lets adding new locales easily. So the ideal would >> be to have a seed (with minimal information) for the locales which doesn't >> exists there and are present in MW list. As CLDR is peer reviewed through >> surveys targeted in-country scholars and standard body representatives, >> normally the quality of the data and metadata is very good. >> >> In the past, there was at least this one extension I know off which was >> facilitating the use of CLDR data on MW: >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CLDR >> >> Let me know what you think. I'd be happy to help. > > > I haven't received any feedback from Amir up to now and as I'm not a MW > developer, I'm writing here to ask for your opinion on the matter. The > bottom line is that I can script out something that cross-checks Names.php > values with CLDR entries, but I think it'd better to think about a long-term > solution. > > Cheers, > Shervin > > _______________________________________________ > 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
