Re: [Wikidata] WikiProjects Languages in Indonesia (Was: Re: Possibility of data lock)

2016-06-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What is the point of your advise? What the language committee allows is one dimensional. Dialects are not granted a permit for labels. This only makes sense once we have dictionary functionality. Thanks, GerardM On 13 June 2016 at 18:30, Andrew Gray wrote: >

Re: [Wikidata] WikiProjects Languages in Indonesia (Was: Re: Possibility of data lock)

2016-06-13 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi Biyanto, I think discussing this in English will be hard, as it seems English doesn't split out the different concepts... Going by the French & German, Q315 (Langage \ Sprache) is the abstract concept of language (the ability to convey concepts) and Q34770 (Langue \ Einzelsprachen) is "a

Re: [Wikidata] WikiProjects Languages in Indonesia (Was: Re: Possibility of data lock)

2016-06-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi I love it when items are highjacked by a science and leave us with something that is completely ambiguous. Thanks, GerardM On 13 June 2016 at 15:06, Biyanto Rebin wrote: > Thank you Gerard, > I usually leave it empty for the language that I couldn't

Re: [Wikidata] WikiProjects Languages in Indonesia (Was: Re: Possibility of data lock)

2016-06-10 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When a language cannot be matched to an ISO-639-3 code, it is necessary to ask for permission from the Language Committee first. Thanks, GerardM On 10 June 2016 at 07:34, Biyanto Rebin wrote: > ​I use the code that is made by ​Statistics Indonesia >

Re: [Wikidata] WikiProjects Languages in Indonesia (Was: Re: Possibility of data lock)

2016-06-09 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Hear hear !! For your information all languages with an ISO-639-3 code may be enabled on Wikidata. In time it will prove important for any and all languages to have many labels in their language. Thanks, GerardM On 9 June 2016 at 18:53, Andy Mabbett wrote:

[Wikidata] WikiProjects Languages in Indonesia (Was: Re: Possibility of data lock)

2016-06-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 9 June 2016 at 05:42, Biyanto Rebin wrote: > PS: I'm making WikiProjects Languages in Indonesia, anyone who want to join > please let me know :) This is great news, and deserving of its own thread. Subject changed! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing