Hoi, Wikipedia is not a platform to fight political fights. When, what was the Belarus Wikipedia, decided that the orthography as used in Belarus was not to be used, it lost its right to call itself be.wikipedia.org. This problem became acute when there was an incubator project for the official language.
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.
There is no chance of having both a be and a bel wikipedia because these codes refer to the same language. Where you say "hear the Belarusians" you made the concious choice not to hear those Belarusians that write the official Belarus orthography. This truth has come home to roost.
Thanks, GerardM
On 3/29/07, Ihar Hrachyshka ihar.hrachyshka@gmail.com wrote:
Please provide info about the reason to move existed be.wp.org community somewhere instead of creating new bel.wp.org for our community? We don't want such results of separation that we can observe now. We should revert this change and create a new domain for new Belarusian community. Is it possible? Please, hear the voices of Belarusians. Don't make a road of war between us.
Ihar Hrachyshka
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