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Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Egyptian Arabic is recognised as a language by the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) in its ISO-639-3 standard.
Well, so is Klingon! :) An ISO-639-3 listing doesn't by itself confer appropriateness for use; it merely confirms that the language can be referred to with a standardized code.
Appropriateness for use in a Wikimedia project tends to vary quite a bit; in some areas we avoid creating wikis for national variants of larger language groups, in other areas we create a lot of national and subnational variants.
Since this is a written medium, national or subnational language variants are usually most controversial where there isn't a standard orthography and the requested form is not commonly used in written communication. (On the other hand, even extinct languages are frequently given wikis where they have a long written historical context.)
I'm only asking about arz specifically because:
a) It's recently come up as we're tidying up the backlog, so it's at the top of the pile
b) I've gotten specific questions about the approval process for arz, so we're making sure everything's clear before setting it up
c) The public discussion I have seen was not conclusive, and it's not yet clear that the langcom discussion was conclusive either.
If the discussion was conclusive, then we'll be happy to finish it up. But since I'd rather not go through this every time we have another wiki to create, I want to make sure that the process is clear.
- -- brion