Hoi!
As per not communicating the swap you are absolutely right and I excuse myself personally. I know it won't help much but as you can understand this is not "everyday business" and we have no standard procedure to manage such events. Yet I read Byelorussian and it should have been my own responsibility to reach you and inform you. I did not do it and I officially excuse myself for that.
Feel free to contact me personally at any time for any possible problem, you can write in Russian if it makes things easier. I will have to answer in English only if the answer has to be notified to LangCom, as I'm the only Russian speaker in LangCom and a Cyrillic answer would not be of any use to the other members.
Now to the answers: the domain is being setup by Brion these days, AFAIK there are a few minor technical problems, but that's all. It should be up very quickly.
Domain names are not "fabricated" on community demand; they follow an international ISO standard. The X part means it's a private code that has value for wmf only (it's a standard, too). Under the current rules the wiki should be simply shutdown, since it does not have an ISO code.
The Board decided to delegate an ad hoc Committee for this kind of decisions and IMHO that's a good warranty for everyone. In the meantime we decided not to have any particular descriptive code for the old Byelorussian edition, since it would have implied some kind of political recognition, which is NOT what wmf is about.
If in the future your linguistic flavor will obtain a valid ISO code we will be glad to adopt it just as we adopt any other internationally recognized code, but we are not willing to issue ANY code on our own. This is a final decision.
DISCLAIMER: this is my personal POV and NOT a collective statement from wmf LangCom.
Berto 'd Sera Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Eugene Zelenko Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:34 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] New language
Hi!
Be however warned that there have been no proposals accepted in the last few months.
This is a bit pessimistic :) The normative Byelorussian wikipedia just was created and substituted the old version, the latter was renamed into be-x-old.
When be-x-old will be available? And why nobody asked opinion of ex-BE:WP community regarding domain name?
Also, I think, will be good idea to notify about such swaps in future...
With best regards, Eugene.
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