[Mediawiki-i18n] Fwd: Re: [Mediawiki-api] is there a way to get the English name of a language?

[Niklas Laxström]

That's new project to me. Anyway, we (translatewiki.net, MediaWiki can
too) source our translated language names from CLDR with cldr
MediaWiki extension. In 1.17 there is even hook if you want to provide
alternative sources for taht data. We're not translating language
names in translatewiki.net, since it is stupid to translate them over
and over again in different places. It can, of course, be disputed
whether CLDR is the best central place to do that.

 -Niklas

On 18 January 2011 17:50, helix84 <helix84 at centrum.sk> wrote:
> No need to do translations from scratch, since other people already
> maintain them:
>
> http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/
>
> Look at iso_639 and iso_639_3.
>
> Regards,
> ~~helix84
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 16:45, Michael Dale <mdale at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Small thread on api list about localising languages lists.. I think it would be worth while. I don't think it would be too costly to the translate community, especially if we seeded it from some digital source.
>>
>> Do people know of a good source for localised language lists? If nothing else the inter-wiki links on the wikipedia article for each language might be a good start.
>>
>> --michael
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] is there a way to get the English name of a language?
>> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:41:51 -0600
>> From: Michael Dale <mdale at wikimedia.org>
>> Reply-To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion <mediawiki-api at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> To: mediawiki-api at lists.wikimedia.org
>>
>> On 01/17/2011 12:52 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
>> > 2011/1/17 Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com>:
>> >> I looked around, but as far as I can find MediaWiki only has the names
>> >> in their native language available.
>> >>
>> > That's right, the English names aren't stored by MediaWiki. I guess if
>> > we did that we'd have to have every language's name in every other
>> > language, which would be a huge amount of data (371 languages, so we'd
>> > need 371*371=137,641 translations).
>> Its not much different from adding an extension with 371 msg keys, we
>> have like ~3K msg keys just core no? You could look at as adding 10%
>> more messages.
>>
>> I would support having localised listing of languages. it would make
>> language selection widgets a lot easier to follow. This list could be
>> seeded from a digital source relativity easily. What to translate wiki
>> folks think?
>>
>> --michael
>>
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