Author: gangleri
Description:
Dear friends,
One should think about migrating names.php to a futere more accepted (relationatiol) model. Main internet sites are using language codes which have a different meaning and mapping gets more and more an issue.
On the other side the available localizations for (actual) MediaWiki language codes and the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation have accumulated much knowledge about how to get a large acceptance. The "etc." in the subject includes site setup with different default font families textsize and instructions how to configure computers to represent the content properly ( http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39388 etc. ).
I assume that seting up wikis requiring other mixed or font families then from the large projects need a lot of additional configurattion which could be provided directly by Mediawiki.
If the information about proper representation is available in MediaWiki one could use magix words as {{FOO-Arab:bar}} beside {{FOO-Tibt:bar}} without much configuration. The model should include handling of language script variants as those available today for Kurdish, Serbian etc. languages. Directionality will automatically inherit from the script directionality.
Additional information as the ethnologogue classifications (language, metalanguage, dialect, dispute?, extinct, constructed etc.) might clarify what is the code about. Beside the mentioned technical help one might link to the main article about the "language" at English Wikipedia. It is self evident that the values for {{lang:}} should be preserved.
This might start a ling discussion. Please let it happen in whatever wiki (meta: mediawiki: ...) and please avoid a list.
Thanks for all efforts in advance!
Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]
P.S. {{FOO-Arab:bar}}, {{FOO-Tibt:bar}} etc. can be sonsidered as a syntax expansion. They might be used or agreed with another popular sites.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement