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This will mean we may use 7000+ languages in Wikidata terms, monolingual texts and lexemes; Abstract Wikipedia will also benefit from it. (For translating language names, see {T231755}) ---- Original: >>! In T151269#2822033, @Nikki wrote: > I had a look at that tracker and found http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/9137 where two of the codes here (fkv and sje) were already requested but rejected. Given the following comment, it seems like it would be a waste of time to request the addition of more languages there: >> We agreed to document there is no intent for CLDR to have the English names of all languages (there are over 7,000) of them, and point to ​http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry as a source for any extra ones that people need. (Not only those MediaWiki supported) See parent tasks for use cases. They should preferably be translatable, but there should be a way to prevent duplicates in translation. http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry is a good resource. Also we may adapt an existing MediaWiki extension, like CLDR.

This will mean we may use 7000+ languages in Wikidata terms, monolingual texts and lexemes; Abstract Wikipedia will also benefit from it. (For translating language names, see {T231755}) ---- Original: >>! In T151269#2822033, @Nikki wrote: > I had a look at that tracker and found http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/9137 where two of the codes here (fkv and sje) were already requested but rejected. Given the following comment, it seems like it would be a waste of time to request the addition of more languages there: >> We agreed to document there is no intent for CLDR to have the English names of all languages (there are over 7,000) of them, and point to ​http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry as a source for any extra ones that people need. (Not only those MediaWiki supported) See parent tasks for use cases. They should preferably be translatable, but there should be a way to prevent duplicates in translation. http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry is a good resource. Also we may adapt an existing MediaWiki extension, like CLDR.

This will mean we may use 7000+ languages in Wikidata terms, monolingual texts and lexemes; Abstract Wikipedia will also benefit from it. (For translating language names, see {T231755}) ---- Original: >>! In T151269#2822033, @Nikki wrote: > I had a look at that tracker and found http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/9137 where two of the codes here (fkv and sje) were already requested but rejected. Given the following comment, it seems like it would be a waste of time to request the addition of more languages there: >> We agreed to document there is no intent for CLDR to have the English names of all languages (there are over 7,000) of them, and point to ​http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry as a source for any extra ones that people need. (Not only those MediaWiki supported) See parent tasks for use cases. They should preferably be translatable, but there should be a way to prevent duplicates in translation. http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry is a good resource. Also we may adapt an existing MediaWiki extension, like CLDR.