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> Van: Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> > Datum: 9 mei 2012 01:36:01 GMT+02:00 > Aan: MediaWiki Tech list <[email protected]> > Onderwerp: [Wikitech-l] Language codes vs site codes > Antwoord aan: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia exist for a large number of languages > (>280, wow). Let us call them the sites. They are identified by the site > code used in the subdomain and in language and interwiki links, e.g. "en" > for en.wikipedia.org, i.e. the English Wikipedia. > > MediaWiki has a number of interface languages. These are selected through > the preferences. They also have short language codes that identify them and > which are used, e.g. in the localization of the code. "en" is used for > English. > > My four questions: > * are the language codes a proper superset of the site codes? > * if the code is the same in both cases, does it always refer to the same > language? > * does the Wikimedia project identified by a specific site code also always > use the same language code as its default interface language? > * are the answers to the previous three questions accidental or by design, > i.e. can we expect that this will stay like this in the future? > > I hope that the answers are yes,yes,yes,yes :) > > Sorry for the nitpicking questions, I hope someone knows the answers. > > Cheers, > Denny > > -- > Project director Wikidata > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 2 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de
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