2009/1/23 Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
When we were to move away from a set of URL's from et to ekk, a generic redirect from et to ekk will suffice because there will be a one on one relation. The et named articles will never be used for anything else. This is true because this is how the standard works.
The very point of the suggestion to change no.wikipedia into nb.wikipedia is that Nynorsk extremists want to *deny* the Bokmål majority the privilege of using the common "no" code as theirs.
The agenda of these extremists has no room for allowing redirects from no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo to nb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo, because that would perpetuate the Bokmål oppression. In the discussions, even the word "occupation" has been used. In their mind, the no.* URL should force the reader to pick either the Bokmål or Nynorsk article. That is, to stop and consider that there are more versions of Norwegian than Bokmål. There must be no default. If there is a default (a redirect), then today's naming would seem OK.
As long as we recognize Nynorsk speakers some "right" to claim that "no" is theirs (too), our naming of sites will continue to get hijacked by such extremists. Our only escape is to refuse to recognize the political meaning of language codes in our domain names, and instead treat them as being just domain names that once assigned should not be changed unless for really good reasons. (Changing fiu-vro to the shorter vro can be a good reason, but changing et to ekk is not.)
-- Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
This is a gross misrepresentation, and the summary is very biased. I suggest you read the entire debate on nowp.