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Language code request : fr-CA
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Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
I am requesting that Canadian French (Q1450506) be added as a new input language for labels and descriptions. Canadian French is spoken by 20% of the Canadian population as their mother tongue, and by 85% of the province of Quebec. It is also spoken in parts of Ontario, Manitoba, BC and the Eastern Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador). This would benefit the francophone community of Canada in representing their history and culture accurately by using their own variations to the language. The concept already exists in Wikidata, but it's not currently sufficient to allow for proper input.

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):
We want to be able to input information from and about the francophone community in Canada using our own language. For example, in Canada, the word baccalauréat is used to refer to the degree obtained at the end of an undergraduate program (before a master's and then a doctorate). In France, baccalauréat refers to the diploma awarded at the end of high school (or even just the final exam). In France, the degrees for the first, second, and third cycles of university are: licence, master, and doctorat. Therefore add a person's degrees in French Canadian and France French can be misleading, inexact and could potentially lead to notability issues as well. Many other example exist, but this one illustrates the point fairly well.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):
Many concepts have different labels in Canada compared to France and we need to be able to represent our French Canadian reality using our own language. We have emancipated ourselves from the French centuries ago, it would be appropriate to do so through an encyclopedic channel as well.

Event Timeline

Anoop changed the subtype of this task from "Feature Request" to "Task".Aug 8 2025, 3:14 AM

It's a good idea, just like it was done for monolingual text values on [[T151186]].

I am supportive of this new language feature.

Il y a certains concepts qui bénéficieraient d'avoir des libellés différents en fr et en fr-CA, autant pour des néologismes que pour des termes bien établis dans l'usage depuis des siècles. Par exemple, le concept décrivant mon domaine de travail - Q184485 - est le plus souvent appelé « spectacle vivant » en France et « arts de la scène » au Canada.

Par ailleurs. il y a un intérêt et un consensus au Canada de décoloniser certains libellés. Ce sujet avait suscité beaucoup d'intérêt à la Wikiconference North America en 2023. Avec le nouveau code fr-CA nous pourrions renommer certains libellés à l'échelle du Canada sans perturber les autres Wikimédiens francophones.