On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Pochung Chen wrote:
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Pochung(Pektiong) Chen(Tan) wrote:
Hi There, The user community on "southern min" (min-nan) wikipedia would like to request to rename the currently used "zh-cfr" to "zh-min-nan". The tag "cfr" makes no sense to the native speaker and the user community. The tag "zh-min-nan" makes sense and is a registered RFC 3066 tag. Please rename the name of southern min wikipedia a.s.a.p, thanks! pektiong
How about minnan.wikipedia.org? It's shorter, doesn't conflict with anything, and is easy to remember.
-- Tim Starling
Please use zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org. This name is the consensus of the community. And following are some rationals.
*most current wikipedia use ISO 639-1/-2 language tag.
*for any new wikipedia whose language doesn't have its own ISO 639-1/-2 language tag, we should use a language tag which is compatible with ISO 639-1/-2.
*we hence should use "RFC 3066 - Tags for the Identification of Languages" when it is possible. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3066.html
*note that for RFC 3066 schema, All 2/3-letter subtags are interpreted according to assignments found in ISO standard 639-1/2, i.e., RFC 3066 is compatible with ISO 639.
*RFC 3066's tag for Southern min language is zh-min-nan http://www.iana.org/assignments/lang-tags/zh-min-nan
I hope those arguments can convince the people here that the only logical name should be "zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org". The article Taiwanese(linguistics) on English wikipedia should provide many useful informaiton if you fell the need to understand this language more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_%28linguistics%29
best pektiong