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Fix most spoken languages in Sweden for compact language links
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Make sure http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/29/supplemental/territory_language_information.html includes information about Norwegian, Danish, German, French, Spanish and Arabic, so that they can be prioritised for new users/browsers/devices.

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Johan triaged this task as Medium priority.May 16 2017, 12:34 AM
Johan moved this task from Backlog to May on the Community-Relations-Support (Apr-Jun 2017) board.

Have created tickets for Danish, Norwegian, German, French and Spanish with data from Eurobarometers 386 and 243; for Arabic, Persian and Polish with data from Sveriges språk i siffror – Vilka språk talas och av hur många? by Mikael Parkvall.

Anyone interested in this topic could take a look at this ticket.

All tickets closed with needs-more-info as resolution. Will revisit.

(The problem here being the contextualisation of why the languages are important.)

Johan lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Oct 16 2017, 10:24 AM

A reminder that this is on the "Ready to Go" column: maybe you can already evaluate whether it's something for next quarter instead. Thank you!

Nothing really has happened in one year. Is there any value in keeping this task open? @Johan, if you want to keep track of this as a volunteer, this is fine of course, but then maybe better with a volunteer account? Otherwise I would just close it or detach it completely from our team boards & members. (For personal reminders Phabricator offers flags as well.)

Johan changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Jul 5 2018, 3:23 PM

Removed team tag, per Quim's comment above.

Julle subscribed.

Re-assigning. In reality, I suppose this was always a volunteer project.

Four years later, I have no faith the CLDR is interested in mapping which languages is understood by any significant number of Swedes. No languages have been added – not languages that are mutually intelligible like Norwegian, not languages that are widely taught in Swedish schools like German, not a major immigrant language like Arabic. Interlingua, at 0.0%, remains listed, though, which means that anything based on CLDR will prioritise it above Norwegian or German or Arabic.