On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
The ISO-639-3 code is a requirement to eligibility. Because of historic reasons we have a few codes that do not comply with the code.One of the reasons for the language committee was to prevent such things from happening again.
When we accept codes that do not signify an existing language, it becomes easy to argue all kinds of corner cases. This door is best kept closed.
In other words, we should keep a number of communities without Wikimedia projects (Mapudungun is not the only case) to keep Gerard not upset.