Re: Reference URLs for language subtags?

John Cowan <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:16:36 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.languages
Message-ID <CAD2gp_TH-EVBSXzqQJ3cFe=RqAEhyMW7OO2gBokVcePEEY8P9g@mail.gmail.com>
Those URLs belong to IANA, not to us, and they are just stashes of the
requests we send them.  I don't think you're going to see hyperlinks or
inclusions in them any time soon.

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:07 AM Sascha Brawer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there a stable URL for seeing all authoritative information about a
> BCP47 subtag, i.e. the registry entry plus the final registration form?
>
> For example,
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/lang-subtags-templates/rm.txt mentions
> that it updated a previous version of the record, but it would be nice if
> that previous record (and anything else relevant for this BCP47 subtag)
> could be displayed on the same page.
>
> Another example is the deprecation of language tag i-ami by ami; it would
> be nice if https://www.iana.org/assignments/lang-subtags-templates/ami.txt
> and https://www.iana.org/assignments/lang-subtags-templates/i-ami.txt (or
> some other stable URL which works for any BCP47 subtag) had the story.
>
> This would be useful for Wikipedia and Wikidata, so that Wikipedia pages
> could refer to authoritative information about BCP47 subtags. For example,
> the infobox in the Wikipedia article about Romansh [
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language] has a footnote next to
> the IETF language tag. The language tag and its reference are taken from
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13199#P305 (click on the reference to
> expand it). Problem is, there isn’t really a good reference with all the
> information, hence the question.
>
> Best,
>
> — Sascha
>
>
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