Yes, that seems like an option. We shouldn't perpetuate institutional
racism of other important internet organizations.

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Steven White <Koala19890@hotmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to me that the best immediate solution is for us to assign them a
> q-code, maybe qmp.  This has the following advantages:
>
> It's something we can do without worrying about anyone else. Q-codes are for
> local use, so what we do with them is our business.
> It's unlikely ever to be overridden by a decision on the part of someone
> else (SIL or a successor) to assign the code to someone else.
> In order for us to maintain compatibility with ISO-compliant systems, we can
> easily redirect arn.wik*.org > qmp.wik*.org, just as we do now with
> redirections like yue > zh-yue.
> Presumably, if the code arn ever is changed, we could move qmp wikis to the
> new code in the future. (OK, this has proved hard even now. But if/when it
> gets solved for already-existing cases, it will be solved for this case as
> well.)
>
> I suppose it's possible that someone, somewhere, is using qmp for some other
> local use, and that this will interfere. I think the chance of there being a
> truly material conflict anywhere is remote. And short of our getting someone
> to change the code—which may or may not be appropriate, but in any case is
> not directly within our power—this is probably the best solution in terms of
> both (a) local ability to implement and (b) unlikeliness of interference in
> outside systems.
>
> The Mapuche test projects on Incubator have not been very active lately. It
> shouldn't be too much trouble to move them from W?/arn > W?/qmp.
>
> Steven White (Incubator administrator)
>
>
> Sent from Outlook
>
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