Last modified: 2012-10-04 07:58:55 UTC
bo (tibetan): bod skad (should be བོད་ཡིག) bn (bengali): should be বাংলা or (oriya): Oriya (should be ଓଡ଼ିଆ) xh (xhosa): Xhosa (should be isiXhosa) zu (zulu): Zulu (should be isiZulu) dv (divehi): should be ހިބަސް lo (lao): should be ລາວ si (sinhala): should be සිංහල ht (haitian creole): should be Krèyol ayisyen dz (dzongkha): should be ཇོང་ཁ" li (limburgish): should be Lèmburgs ti (tigrinya): should be ትግርኛ ii (yi): should be ꆇꉙ ve (venda): should be Tshivenda
Created attachment 322 [details] A patch to languages/Names.php (HEAD) This is a patch to languages/Names.php which implements your suggestions, some things you might want to confirm however are: * bn: I changed "বাংলা - (Bangla)" to "বাংলা", is this really what you want? * xh: I left it as "isiXhosa" * zu: I left it as "isiZulu" * dz: I changed it to 'ཇོང་ཁ' not 'ཇོང་ཁ"' (single quotes delimit the string), i trust the extra " was a mistake on your part and not part of the language name
I have duplicated some of these changes in bug # 1611, but not all, so I haven't marked it as a dup. I am no expert in this but comparing to Omniglot.com: http://www.omniglot.com/language/names.htm You'll find that the names for bn, or and ti correspond, while bo and lo (if Lao and Laotian is the same) does not correspond, while it has nothing about dv, dz, ii, li, si. I have changed severety and priority since these are small languages in little use.
See also bug # 1544 and bug # 1611, would be nice if you could implement this: - 'ng' => 'Ndonga', # Ndonga, (FIXME!) + 'ng' => 'Oshiwambo', # Ndonga
*** Bug 1611 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #2) > I have duplicated some of these changes in bug # 1611, but not all, so I haven't > marked it as a dup. > > I am no expert in this but comparing to Omniglot.com: > http://www.omniglot.com/language/names.htm > > You'll find that the names for bn, or and ti correspond, while bo and lo (if Lao > and Laotian is the same) does not correspond, while it has nothing about dv, dz, > ii, li, si. If you could actually READ any of these languages, you'd see that the reason for that is that Omniglot uses forms that mean for example "Laotian language", which while proper isn't something you would use in an interwiki link. The form I gave for those that "don't match" is because they use the adjectival form - like how we use "English" instead of "English language". > I have changed severety and priority since these are small languages in little use. You are wrong about these languages. Bangla is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world with over 100 million speakers. All of them except dz: and dv: have over 1 million speakers, and both of these are the national languages of independent nations (Bhutan and the Maldives respectively)
(In reply to comment #6) > for those that "don't match" is because they use the adjectival form - like how > we use "English" instead of "English language". OK. Good. > > I have changed severety and priority since these are small languages in little > use. > > You are wrong about these languages. Bangla is one of the most widely spoken I meant Wikimedia-wide, not worldwide.
