--- Magnus Manske Magnus.Manske@epost.de wrote:
I think namespace and language should be orthogonal. Unless we can unambigously discern language codes and namespace names, a different delmiter should be used. One could mandate namespaces to have at least four letters, though.
I'd prefer to keep the : as delimiter for both. This is, of course, only my opinion, based on the fact that it would mean a major rewrite of some parts of the software;)
I suggest we reserve two-letter namespaces for interlinking to other language wikipedias. Thus, we should stop anyone from creating a two-letter namespace. Also, I suggest we use alpha-2 ISO 639 language codes (en, de, fr, etc.). ISO 639 alpha-2 codes can represent all the major modern languages. (Of course, if someone wants to start up a Wikipedia in some obscure language like Old Avestan, then you'd need to use an ISO 639 alpha-3 code to represent it. So maybe we should also reserve three letter namespaces as well, for languages without alpha-2 codes.)
[snip] Simon J Kissane
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