[Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon

[Jon Harald Søby]

Wikipedias follow the ISO 639
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639>language code standard, where
"uk" is the code for the Ukrainian language.
The chapter sites, however, use the ISO
3166<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166>standard for country codes,
and "ua" is the code for the country of Ukraine.

(There is however the fact that the ISO 3166 code for the United Kingdom is
"gb", while "uk" is unused; our usage however mirrors that of the country
code top level domains<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain>
.)

2009/7/22 Pavlo Shevelo <pavlo.shevelo at gmail.com>

> Hello Teofilo,
>
> I appreciate a lot that you rose up this issue of confusion (I was
> planning to do that myself a bit later).
>
> I'm from Ukrainian WP (recently - from WMF chapter for Ukraine as
> well) and I've met many times those confusions/misunderstandings
> starting from
> http://uk.wikipedia.org
> vs.
> http://uk.wikimedia.org
>
> I'm sure that this issue deserves some portion of attention & thorough
> brainstorming ;)
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Teofilo<teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everybody;
> >
> > This is to say that I have written a piece on this topic at :
> >
> >
> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Ukraine,_isn't_it_<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Ukraine,_isn%27t_it_>
> ?
> >
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