[Mediawiki-i18n] The name of your language in MediaWiki - action required

[സുനിൽ (Sunil)]

ok for hi, ml, sa, ta

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Soslan Khubulov <soslanx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Amir,
>
> I found language name for Czech is not correct. In the array its name is *
> Česky*,* *but it seems that is not the name. The sources are article
> about Czech language <http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Ce%C5%A1tina>,
> česky <http://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C4%8Desky> entry in wikitionary and
> čeština <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C4%8De%C5%A1tina> entry in
> wikitionary.
>
> Thanks,
> Soslan
>
> 2012/4/1 Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi Amir,
>>
>> I skimmed through the list and haven't seen anything incorrect. I have a
>> question though; considering the fact that some of this data is available
>> in CLDR, have you ever considered integrating their data and then do a
>> fallback? The fallback would definitely be necessary in some cases because
>> your list is *way* more extensive than what CLDR currently supports.
>>
>> Of course, CLDR specs lets adding new locales easily. So the ideal would
>> be to have a seed (with minimal information) for the locales which doesn't
>> exists there and are present in MW list. As CLDR is peer reviewed through
>> surveys targeted in-country scholars and standard body representatives,
>> normally the quality of the data and metadata is very good.
>>
>> In the past, there was at least this one extension I know off which was
>> facilitating the use of CLDR data on MW:
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CLDR
>>
>> Let me know what you think. I'd be happy to help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Shervin
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:46, Xuacu Saturio <xuacusk8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On sáb 31 mar 2012 21:32:35 CEST, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> MediaWiki has a list of language names. These names are used in
>>>> several locations; the most visible location is the list of
>>>> interlanguage links that appears in every article.
>>>>
>>>> Recently i've been making little fixes to that list. I fixed what i
>>>> knew, but there are many language about which i don't know anything.
>>>>
>>>> Please take a look at it:
>>>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/**r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;**
>>>> a=blob;f=languages/Names.php;**hb=HEAD<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=blob;f=languages/Names.php;hb=HEAD>
>>>>
>>>> Find the name of your language and check: Is it written correctly? Is
>>>> it appropriate for a list of interlanguage links?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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>>>
>>> Hi Amir, all
>>>
>>> Thumbs up for Asturian (ast)
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> --
>>> Xuacu Saturio
>>>
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