[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] T284915: add info about language names to description of "language codes" project

[Esc3300]

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  Oddly, it seems that the autonym is irrelevant for Wikidata. Wikidata makes 
uses primarily of the English name of a language and name, depending on user 
preferences, the language name in other interface language.
  
  Accordingly, questions about autonyms should probably only be in a 
"monitoring" column, maybe "monitoring (autonym)".  
#mediawiki-internationalization 
 or 
#i18n  may be the primary projects 
for these. I should update the above.

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[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] T284915: add info about language names to description of "language codes" project

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TASK DESCRIPTION
  Add details about "language names" to the #language_codes 
 project page 
: where to define, how 
to update. Below a draft of information to add. Please help complete it.
  
  -
  
  Language names
  --
  
  As a code is assigned for language, this can't be done without specifying its 
name: autonym and/or English name.
  
  Further, Wikidata makes use of a names of all languages in every other 
language. Many of the later are primarily used by (and regularly displayed on) 
Wikidata. So the lack of such names and inconsistent naming may only surface 
there.
  
  Generally a language name would be consistent with the title of the article 
in the Wikipedia of the relevant language and the label of the Wikidata item. 
Sample:
  
  - the language with the code "it" has its English Wikipedia article at 
"Italian_language" 
  - and the English label of the Wikidata item about the language is  "Italian" 
.
  - Accordingly, the name "Italian" would be consistent in English. This is 
what {{#language:it|en}} displays in Wikimedia websites and this is what 
appears in Wikidata termbox before Italian labels when viewed in English. 
Help:Wikimedia_language_codes/lists/all 
 has 
summary of names in English and French, both from Wikidata labels and the  
{{#language}} function.
  
  As language codes are defined in several places, the same goes for language 
names:
  
  - ..
  
  If a language name should be added or corrected, please create a ticket 
referencing the relevant Wikidata item.

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284915

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GoranSMilovanovic, Mahir256, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, 
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