Gutza wrote:
Aromanian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromanian) is a Romanian language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language) dialect.
A new Wikipedia is requested for this language on the Romanian Wikipedia (http://ro.wikipedia.org) by Aromanians who don't know where else to turn. Romanian wikipedians have "offered" temporary demo space for the Aromanian Wikipedia main page at http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prota_padzin%C3%A2
As far as rigid official ethnography language codes are concerned, all I was able to find regarding Aromanian was ISO 639-2, along with a "SIL" language code, as described in http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RUP
After a discussion between Brion and I over standard compliance (he's such a stickler) and appropriate names, we eventually decided on:
The rationale is that roa is the ISO 639-2 code for "other romance" languages, which apparently this is one of. RUP is the SIL code for Aromanian. We couldn't just use rup.wikipedia.org (or any other three letter code), because that could conflict with future ISO 639-2 allocations.
This scheme gives us a way to specify everything that was rejected from ISO 639-2 on the basis of being a dialect not a language. Languages which are not in ISO 639-2 due to being too small or too new (like Toki Pona) will have to be given longer, descriptive hostnames for the time being.
While I was at it, I also set up the Klingon Wikipedia. It's at tlh.wikipedia.org. I also created wiktionaries for tokipona, roa-rup, chr and tlh, however they won't start working properly until the wiktionary script files are converted to 1.3.
-- Tim Starling