Smalyshev added a comment. @Fomafix we're not talking about user interface languages here. We're talking about language specification in the RDF export - which should follow BCP 47 and common accepted language codes, otherwise third-party tools would not be able to understand in which language these strings are in. Of course, with something like "Simple English" there might not be a standard code (correct me if I'm wrong) but at least it should be one that is standard-compliant and not the same as "en", otherwise sitelink to Simple English and sitelink to English would not be distinguishable.
As far as I can see, Simple English is a separate wiki from English - I see "Search the 113,945 articles in the Simple English Wikipedia" on the homepage, so it's not the same articles. Thus, I think we need separate code for it. > Changing this codes to de-x-formal and nl-x-informal may be possible when > this is necessary to be conform to BCP 47. That's what I am doing in the patch. Along with several others that also need to be changed for standard compliance. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105430 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Smalyshev Cc: Fomafix, gerritbot, Smalyshev, Aklapper, daniel, mkroetzsch, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Manybubbles, JanZerebecki, Malyacko, P.Copp _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
