Thanks all your help!
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:02 PM, P. Blissenbach publi@web.de wrote:
"Andrew Gray" andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote
XXwiki or XXXwiki will always refer to the XX or XXX language Wikipedia using standard ISO 639-1 or 639-2 codes; there are a couple of exceptions, such as simplewiki, but anything with two or three characters should be reliable.
Replace ISO 639-2 above with ISO 639-3. We are not using ISO 639-2 codes any more (unless they coincide with ISO 639-3 ones, which happens, but not always)
Exceptions from the ISO 639-1 or 639-3 rule can be found at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#Nonstandard_language_codes There are 6 of 14 ones which could be easily avoided as of today, mostly since new language codes have been added to the ISO 639-3 list. Few more will likely or certaily follow, but 3 or 4 codes could remain that will not as easily be done away with.
Purodha
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