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Decide whether to make LanguageNameUtils able to support BCP 47 language tags
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Currently, LanguageNameUtils only accept MediaWiki internal language codes as parameter.

However, it is supposed that LanguageNameUtils should be able to use BCP 47 language tags as parameter.

This also caused:

  • Duplicate language names in Names.php.
  • MediaWiki internal language codes instead of BCP 47 language tags being used (e.g., zh-cn vs. zh-Hans-CN/zh-hans-cn).
    • Wikibase show MediaWiki internal language codes instead of BCP 47 language codes.
  • Problem for language name on SVG language dropdown switcher (cannot show, e.g., zh-Hans-CN & show MediaWiki internal - als show gsw).

We should probably consider make LanguageNameUtils able to support BCP 47 language tags as parameter.

(abandoned option: change Names.php to BCP 47 language code)

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Winston_Sung created this task.Apr 9 2023, 1:42 PM
Izno subscribed.Apr 9 2023, 10:05 PM
Winston_Sung renamed this task from Decide to use BCP 47 language codes or MediaWiki internal codes for Names.php to Decide whether to use BCP 47 language codes or MediaWiki internal codes for Names.php.May 24 2023, 5:53 PM
Winston_Sung moved this task from Untriaged to Analysis on the I18n board.Aug 9 2023, 12:41 PM
Winston_Sung added a parent task: T334348: Normalize BCP 47 language codes.Oct 7 2023, 4:20 AM
Winston_Sung removed a parent task: T334347: Completely distinguish concepts including "BCP 47 language code", "MediaWiki internal language code", "interlanguage prefix", "site language subdomain", "site DB prefix".
Winston_Sung added a project: Language-Team.Oct 7 2023, 4:26 AM
Winston_Sung added subscribers: Nikerabbit, Amire80, Jdforrester-WMF.
Winston_Sung updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 7 2023, 4:29 AM
Nikerabbit added a comment.Oct 30 2023, 2:21 PM

My opinion is no. Only if we completely get rid of internal language codes. I like what the content transform team is doing with typed language codes (instead of just string) to avoid mixing them.

Winston_Sung renamed this task from Decide whether to use BCP 47 language codes or MediaWiki internal codes for Names.php to Decide whether to make LanguageNameUtils able to support BCP 47 language codes.Oct 30 2023, 2:32 PM
Winston_Sung updated the task description. (Show Details)
Winston_Sung added a comment.Oct 30 2023, 2:34 PM
In T334350#9291432, @Nikerabbit wrote:

My opinion is no. Only if we completely get rid of internal language codes. I like what the content transform team is doing with typed language codes (instead of just string) to avoid mixing them.

Thanks for giving opinions.

Nikerabbit removed a project: Language-Team.Nov 6 2023, 11:18 AM
Nikki subscribed.Nov 4 2024, 8:09 AM

The description of this ticket seems inaccurate. Languages have never been added to Names.php for Wikibase, as far as I know. Languages are added to $wmgExtraLanguageNames for Wikidata and Commons because it's not acceptable to add them to Names.php (for some unknown reason). It would be much simpler for Wikidata if things could be added to Names.php instead of needing a custom configuration, see T273627 (including the comments).

The duplicates in Names.php seem to be part of the general move towards using BCP47 codes (e.g. gsw was added in 2006, lzh in 2009, vro also in 2009, sgs in 2010 and rup in 2011 - all before Wikidata existed).

Winston_Sung renamed this task from Decide whether to make LanguageNameUtils able to support BCP 47 language codes to Decide whether to make LanguageNameUtils able to support BCP 47 language tags.Nov 4 2024, 8:31 AM
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