2017-12-27 0:33 GMT+01:00 Steven White <Koala19890(a)hotmail.com>om>:
The main thing that is urgent is that the Montenegrin
community is getting
restless.
As to whether this should be approved (even waiting for an ISO 639-3
code), in principle I agree with MF-Warburg. But in practice, it's a little
hard for me to understand why there shouldn't be a Montenegrin Wikipedia
when there are separate Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian Wikipedias. If I were
a Montenegrin I would not be able to understand that at all. If there were
still only one Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, I think we could make a case for
not creating any of the others. But from where we stand now, how can we
possibly say that separate Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian projects are
acceptable, but a Montenegrin one is not?
These separate projects were all created before Langcom and the current
policy existed. They wouldn't be created today.
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*From:* Steven White
*Sent:* Tuesday, December 26, 2017 5:43 PM
*To:* langcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*Subject:* Montenegrin Wikipedia (URGENT)
I was going to hold off on this until the holidays are over, but rather
remarkably, unless somebody hacked the Library of Congress's web site
<https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_changes.php>,
Montenegrin has been granted an ISO 639–2 code ("cnr"). This has been in
the air over the last month, and represents the first addition to ISO 639–2
in over five years. The Montenegrin community is jumping for joy, and I've
just full-protected the page Requests for new languages/Wikipedia
Montenegrin 5
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Montenegrin_5>
on Meta because the discussion is getting out of hand.
If srwiki, hrwiki and bswiki didn't exist, we wouldn't have to create this
one, either. But I have to admit that I don't really see any way we can
currently justify not approving this project (as "eligible"). My questions
are, therefore:
- Am I right about that?
- Is LangCom willing to see this project marked as "eligible" based on
an ISO 639-2 code alone?
- The rules are that non-collective ISO 639-2 codes are supposed to be
reflected in ISO 639-3 as well. So do I wait until this code is published
by SIL?
- If so, what happens if SIL does not take action?
Steven
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