Wikidata:Property proposal/POSIX locale identifier
POSIX locale identifier edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | identifier for a language per the POSIX standard, as defined in ISO/IEC 9945 and ISO/IEC 15897. |
|---|---|
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | language (Q34770), dialect (Q33384), ethnolect (Q951873) |
| Allowed values | /[a-z]{2,3}(_[A-Z]{2,3})?/ |
| Example 1 | Brazilian Portuguese (Q750553) → pt_BR |
| Example 2 | English (Q1860) → en |
| Example 3 | British English (Q7979) → en_GB |
| Example 4 | American English (Q7976) → en_US |
| Example 5 | Peninsular Spanish (Q7162990) → es_ES |
| Source | ICU list |
| Number of IDs in source | 620 |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| See also | IETF language tag (P305) |
| Distinct-values constraint | yes |
Motivation edit
The POSIX locale identifier is commonly used, especially in computing circles; indeed, many language items (including several of the examples above) already include the corresponding POSIX identifier as an alias. We should encode them as actual properties. Waldyrious (talk) 22:33, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Discussion edit
Support --Hannes Röst (talk) 02:11, 5 January 2021 (UTC)- Support Seems useful yes. ArthurPSmith (talk) 20:01, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Strong support --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 06:07, 6 January 2021 (UTC)- Support. YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 13:54, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- Support --Gerwoman (talk) 18:28, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Waldyrious, Hannes Röst, ArthurPSmith, YULdigitalpreservation, Gerwoman:
Done --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 00:51, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
