2017-12-27 0:33 GMT+01:00 Steven White <Koala19890@hotmail.com>:

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@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, 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 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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