Add termbox support for Carolinian language (ISO code: cal) and Tanapag (ISO code: tpv) on Wikidata.
Acceptance criteria:
- Added termbox support for Carolinian language (ISO code: cal)
- Added termbox support for Tanapag language (ISO code: tpv)
Open questions:
- Where do we need this in the termbox or also for monolingual text values?
Original:
Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
Add Carolinian and Tanapag language labels to items on Wikidata. At the moment it is only possible to specify Carolinian as the language for a string value corresponding to a property. (This feature was added in 2020 based on a ticket here based on my searching.)
Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):
Carolinian is an official language of the Northern Mariana Islands and I have been adding Carolinian translations and etymologies to place names and related terms. There is a good open source/public domain Carolinian-English dictionary that has been informative for this. Tanapag is a related language which is endangered but still spoken on the language, and Carolinian has a lot of Tanapag loan words where it would be useful to specify where the word comes from.
When I tried adding these translations to labels of Wikidata items, I found no way to do this.
Benefits (why should this be implemented?):
The main benefit is more complete coverage of the Northern Mariana Islands and related topics on Wikidata, which would in turn be helpful for tying to any complimentary data relating to the territory available through other channels. At the moment, any coverage of this topic is inhibited by the fact that it isn't congruent with the way the languages of other regions of the world are typically specified or at least supposed to be. (I am aware language support limitations have long been an issue in the Mediawiki ecosystem, but I am not knowledgeable on the technical details of it, or how feasible it is to add specific languages until a more comprehensive system for specifying language is introduced.)
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