On 29/03/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
The language committee was asked how to deal with it. We found that there is little or no chance to get this "orthography" recognised by the current ISO-639 standard. The standard allows for a private label; we selected an arbitrary label. From my personal point of view, there should be no be-x-old wikipedia in the first place; I would see it moved outside of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Could you explain how this orthography was consistent and formalised enough for an entire Wikimedia project to use it and yet is not recognised by the standard? It seems unusual that such an orthography can be used enough to have this level of recognition (to the extent that it displaces the formal orthography) and yet not be recognised by the standard.
Has the Norwegian solution been considered (seperate Bokmål and Nynorsk Wikipedias) as a soltution to the Belarussian problem?
Wikimedia needs to be pragmatic. No standard is perfect.