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:
http://roa-rup.wikipedia.org
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