Last modified: 2013-08-12 05:05:40 UTC
is it possible having an option to use locale language's name instead of there prefixes? for example in language column instead of typing ar (arabic) users can type عربی it has two benefits 1-finding the definition for an interwiki on mother language is much faster than Latin. specially for east Asia languages and not popular languages such as mzn. 2-for inputting data user doesn't need to switch their keyboard language for example: adding Farsi definition for helium needs to type the fa prefix at first after that user can write هلیم.
Yes. This could be done with the CLDR extension. Wikibase would get the language names from CLDR and then use them in the UI. See mw:Extension:CLDR Related bug: bug:5231
See also Bug #37542
Actually, this should work now. It works for Chinese, etc. I am having trouble entering Arabic. Can someone confirm if this indeed doesn't work?
on http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/w/index.php/Data:Q3?uselang=fa I checked it works but it have mino problem with tab button for example if user type eo after that s/he press tab it will accept Esperanto (eo) but if he press فارسی after that press tab it doesn't accept فارسی (fa)
Yes, I can confirm this for all languages, but is a slightly different bug than the original description. Selecting a language by language name does not seem to work right now.
I moved the second bug to bug 38192
