Wikipedias follow the ISO 639 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639language code standard, where "uk" is the code for the Ukrainian language. The chapter sites, however, use the ISO 3166http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166standard for country codes, and "ua" is the code for the country of Ukraine.
(There is however the fact that the ISO 3166 code for the United Kingdom is "gb", while "uk" is unused; our usage however mirrors that of the country code top level domainshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain .)
2009/7/22 Pavlo Shevelo pavlo.shevelo@gmail.com
Hello Teofilo,
I appreciate a lot that you rose up this issue of confusion (I was planning to do that myself a bit later).
I'm from Ukrainian WP (recently - from WMF chapter for Ukraine as well) and I've met many times those confusions/misunderstandings starting from http://uk.wikipedia.org vs. http://uk.wikimedia.org
I'm sure that this issue deserves some portion of attention & thorough brainstorming ;)
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Teofiloteofilowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everybody;
This is to say that I have written a piece on this topic at :
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Uk...http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Ukraine,_isn%27t_it_ ?
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