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
On the other hand, UTF-8 should be more than ok for this language as far as technical concerns go.
Please let me know if there are any other concerns or problems regarding the creation of this new Wikipedia, and I'll be glad to clarify them. The ideal URL for the new Wikipedia would be http://ars.wikipedia.org, but any alternate suggestions are welcome.
Also, if there are any problems with or concerns against creating this Wikipedia, please do let me know so I can explain the respective issues to (and clarify them with) the Aromanian users on the Romanian Wikipedia.
Thank you for your time, [[w:user:Gutza]]
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
Tim Starling wrote:
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.
FWIW, all otherwise unassigned artificial languages may be grouped under the ISO 639-2 code 'art' (eg, 'art-tokipona').
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
*We would like to request a new Wikipedia for the Minnan language. The genetic classification looks like Min-nan \in Min \in Chinese \in Sino-Tibetan.
*For information about Minnan, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min-nan
*For information about Minnan spoken in Taiwan (i.e. Taiwanese), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_(linguistics)
*Following is the relevant language code information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_(linguistics) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=CFR ISO 639-1: zh RFC 3066: zh-min-nan ISO 639-2(B): chi ISO 639-2(T): zho SIL language code: CFR
*We would like to suggest to use http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org as the URL of of the Minnan wikipedia
*We would like to suggest to use en(utf8) for user interface when creating the Minnan wikipedia. We will then do the L10N gradually.
best Pektiong
Tân PekTiong wrote:
*We would like to request a new Wikipedia for the Minnan language. The genetic classification looks like Min-nan \in Min \in Chinese \in Sino-Tibetan.
Following the ISO-SIL scheme:
-- Tim Starling
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