On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)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