Language code zh-classical is invalid
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	VladimirAlexiev
	Jul 8 2020, 9:24 AM

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Various Wikidata items (eg Niger) have labels in language zh-classical (as well as many other zh-* codes). This lang tag is invalid.

We should just use BCP 47 language code lzh for Literary Chinese / Classical Chinese.

Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		None	T124286 [Epic] Wikidata language support
Open		None	T145535 language code disparity (Wikidata tracking)
Open	BUG REPORT	None	T279874 SVG language tag als reported as Swiss German; gsw is Swiss German.
Open		None	T44396 duplicate/invalid language codes
Open	Feature	None	T284808 Add a configuration variable that allows disabling language codes for labels, descriptions, and aliases
Open	BUG REPORT	None	T257415 Language code zh-classical is invalid

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJul 8 2020, 9:24 AM

The correct code for Classical Chinese is lzh.

It looks like some of these have been added by a bot, e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Diff/1176117811 - it would be a good idea to ask the bot owner to clean up their mistakes.

I think otherwise this is covered by T44396 and T102533

Can this be marked as a duplicate of one of those tasks?

I have recently moved all uses of the code "zh-classical" for labels/aliases and descriptions to use "lzh" instead, if this helps anyone.

@Mahir256 : see T30443 for a validation of the WD dump with rdf4j, and it still appears.

Winston_Sung renamed this task from lang zh-classical is invalid to Language code zh-classical is invalid.Jun 18 2023, 4:32 AM

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