Make the name of the country available as parserfunction
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	• bzimport
	Sep 5 2013, 12:31 AM

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Author: romaine.wiki

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Currently we can use {{#language:xx}} to insert the language name in pages, and {{#language:xx|en}} to show language xx in English. Please make such also available for countries, like {{#country:XX}} and {{#country:XX|yy}} with XX replaced by the ISO 3166-1 code of the country and yy the language it should be shown in.

The data is already present in CLDR.

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Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz53786

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Mentioned In: T276335: Country select menu on Ways to Give is largely in English for other languages

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:52 AM

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• bzimport created this task.Sep 5 2013, 12:31 AM

romaine.wiki wrote:

And with {{#country:XX}} or unknown code at $2 then English as fallback

Have you considered using Wikidata data for this? It probably has better coverage.

romaine.wiki wrote:

Yes considered, found ways to do so: no. Main issue: titles of articles are not the same as the to be used text.

I noticed that this data is already available in MediaWiki, as it is used in the CentralNotice system for example.

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Raymond merged a task: T105993: Implement new #country preprocessor function, similar to #language.Apr 26 2018, 9:19 PM

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