[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Tim Starling tstarling at wikimedia.org
Tue Jul 10 15:00:10 UTC 2007


Filip Maljkovic wrote:
> Well, this is certainly good news. Great thing going, guys. One remark, 
> though: I'm not quite sure (future) US chapters should have 
> abbreviations that way. When I saw wikimediapa-l, I thought of Wikimedia 
> Pakistan (although, PA stands for Panama, the point is the same). 
> Because of the two-letter-codes overlapping with the US TLCs, it might 
> be wise to introduce something like wikimediaus-pa-l (likewise for the 
> IRC channel) or anything else that would make it clear that the TLC 
> isn't of a country, but of a US state.

I've never been a fan of double-barreled abbreviations, they tend to be
long and opaque. Why not "wikimedia-penn"?

-- Tim Starling




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