On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The policy warts and all is clearly beneficial. We are discussing a corner case, this is how to deal with reconstructed languages. One of the things that we have is time. There is time to get a code for a reconstructed language, there is no urgency.
The English Wikipedia has been built in 7 years. Just 7 years, and look at all that has been accomplished.
Despite some vague conversation you report here, I see no sign of likelihood at all that the ISO is going to open up to your unprecedented requirement of a unique "reconstructed" code, a requirement that only you among the people in this discussion seem to consider significant. And if it ever were implemented in the medium term, it might be on a one-time basis for Greek, while not addressing the larger issue.
Which does not mean that we couldn't move over to a "reconstructed" code later if one was ever implemented.
But I assert that there -is- an urgency now. Waiting 10 years should not be an option. We would lose -far- too many good encyclopedia-writing hours.
Thanks, Pharos