Yes same issue for Sinhala (of Sri Lanka) and the country code for Slovenia - SI or Burmese and Malaysia - MY or Virgin Islands and Vietnamese - VI.
I'm sure there are several other cases as well.
Mark
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Milos Rancicmillosh@gmail.com wrote:
Wikimedia Serbia and Serbian language projects have similar problem with Suriname: The code for Serbian language is sr, while the code for Serbia is rs. It is interesting that .sr code was one of the preferred codes for some Serbian sites for a long time: it is free and for a long time Serbia used .yu.
So, sr.wikipedia.org is the proper name for Wikipedia in Serbian. rs.wikimedia.org is the proper name for Wikimedia Serbia site. However, we have a mailing list wikimediasr-l, which is used as a generic public list for all projects in Serbian, not for Wikimedia Serbia. And in some not so near future we'll have to solve this.
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