On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
In a few projects the language code in the domain is different from the actual language code: 'als' is a code for Tosk Albanian, but als.wikipedia.org is written in Alemanic; 'no' is a code for both Bokmal Norwegian and Nynorsk Norwegian, but no.wikipedia.org is only Bokmal; and there are several other examples.
In the past when requests to rename such domains were raised, the usual replies were along the lines of "it's impossible" or "it's not worth the technical effort", but I don't know the details.
Also see: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T21986 (Wikis waiting to be renamed (tracking))