[Wiki Loves Monuments] How are the adm1 "translated" names obtained?

[Platonides]

On 11/09/12 09:21, Arthur Richards wrote:
> Hi Strainu,
> 
> There is some documentation about this here:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Data_issues
> 
> Briefly, we've taken a datadump of ISO-3166-2 data from
> commondatahub.org <http://commondatahub.org>, which we use to provide
> the mapping from ISO-3166-2 region codes to their English names. We have
> put together a script that then takes all of those names and attempts to
> auto-'translate' them by checking the name against the interwiki
> language links API.
> 
> We can easily override the automatic 'translations' that we have. If
> you'd like to do it yourself, you should fork the repository on github,
> follow the instructions in the readme file, and submit a pull request:
> https://github.com/awjrichards/WLM-ISO-3166-2
> 
> Alternatively, you can file a bug in bugzilla with a mapping of
> ISO-3166-2 region codes to regional names, and we can get the
> translations added when we are able.
> 
> All of the WMF staff will be busy in our annual all-staff meetings for
> the rest of the week, so forgive us if we are unable to respond as
> quickly as usual.
> 
> Thanks!
> Arthur


Oh, cool. I had suspected it was a method like that, from c18707 /
c18708, but had not found the WLM-ISO-3166-2 repo (I looked for it in
WLMMobile and repos of wikimedia). I no longer need to ask you :)

I have some ideas on how to structure them, but didn't build it into a
commit yet.