[Foundation-l] Community draft of language proposal policy

Crazy Lover always_yours.forever at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 7 17:08:27 UTC 2008


don't worry, current and community proposal exclude expressly dialects, and different written forms of the same language.

see:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy/Community_draft



C.m.l.






----- Original Message ----
From: Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 7, 2008 2:24:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Community draft of language proposal policy

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Acceptance of the RFC 4646 as the standard to go by would mean that we split
> the en.wikipedia.org in the many variants accepted under this standard. Not
> a good idea you will agree.

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard
<pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It was retired before ISO 639-3 was published, and even if it weren't
> it would fail the requirement that it "be sufficiently unique that it
> could not coexist on a more general wiki".

In light of this requirement mentioned by Jesse, how is it a problem
that RFC 4646 provides for "many variants" (like en-GB, en-AU etc)?

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com

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