Berto 'd Sera wrote:
Hoi,
No project is being accepted unless it has a valid ISO 639 code, such are our current policies. We chose to do this to avoid being "those who decide what is a language and what is not". We don't make the standards, we just use them "as they are". :) Any alternative would fall in the boundaries of "Original Research", which is not what wikipedias are about.
What nonsense. Wikimedia can and should do original research. It's only in the main namespace of Wikipedia that we have that restriction, and that's because we see an encyclopedia as a secondary source.
It's only since the addition of ISO 639-3 that it's even feasible to use ISO 639 as a canonical list of languages, and that's only because SIL was recognised as the most competent body to do such a thing. The Library of Congress was doing a poor job of it, and I would absolutely stand by our decision to add language editions to Wikipedia that they didn't recognise.
-- Tim Starling