[Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Do not forget the als.wikipedia.org. It stands for Alsatian, but the als
code is the Tosk language. The "gsw" code is the code that should have been
used.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw

The nrm.wikipedia is also using a wrong code. nrm is Narom, a language from
Malaysia. Nourmande is not recognised as a language, consequently there is
no code available for it. I propose to use qaa for this.
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/scope.asp#R
Thanks,
      Gerard<




2008/11/26 Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby at gmail.com>

> Don't forget zh-yue → yue and zh-min-nan → nan; these languages have got
> valid ISO 639-3 codes since creation. Also, als should be moved to gsw (als
> is the code for Tosk Albanian, while als in Wikimedia is Alemannisch - not
> even close to Tosk Albanian).
>
> 2008/11/26 Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org>
>
> > For quick background, it's pretty painful to rename a database in our
> > system, and we currently have a lot of bits in our configuration that
> > make automatic relationships between the database name and the domain
> > name, so this has delayed renaming of some language subdomains for a
> while.
> >
> > It's not impossible to have them be different, just fairly awkward. :)
> >
> > I'd like to get these done soon, but before we get started, I want to
> > make sure the queue is complete and ready to go. I've currently got four
> > language code renames that I see being requested...
> >
> > == Aromanian ==
> >
> > roa-rup.wikipedia.org -> rup.wikipedia.org
> > roa-rup.wiktionary.org -> rup.wiktionary.org
> >
> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15988
> >
> > ISO-639-2 code 'rup' was added in September 2005, and can supersede the
> > generic 'roa' code with 'rup' subtag.
> >
> > This seems pretty uncontroversial. Existing domains and interwikis would
> > be redirected.
> >
> >
> > == Low German ==
> >
> > nds.wikipedia.org -> nds-de.wikipedia.org
> > nds.wikibooks.org -> nds-de.wikibooks.org
> > nds.wikiquote.org -> nds-de.wikiquote.org
> > nds.wiktionary.org -> nds-de.wiktionary.org
> >
> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8540
> >
> > Reasoning: Disambiguation of country variants to create a portal site
> > (nds-nl.wikipedia.org exists as well).
> >
> > The original request is almost 2 years old and didn't seem to have any
> > clear consensus; is this still desired?
> >
> > Creating a portal site could cause difficulties with URL compatibility,
> > and I don't really recommend making this change without clear consensus
> > from the community there.
> >
> > Note that nds.wikipedia.org includes a link on the front page to
> > nds-nl.wikipedia.org.
> >
> >
> > == Moldovan ==
> >
> > mo.wikipedia.org -> mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org
> > mo.wiktionary.org -> mo-cyrl.wiktionary.org
> >
> > The official Moldovan language is the same as Romanian, using Latin
> > script and same orthography as on ro.wikipedia.org. Latin script was
> > officially adopted in 1989, replacing Soviet-era Cyrillic script; use of
> > Cyrillic script is still "official" in an unrecognized,
> > lightly-populated breakaway region but if people there use it, they
> > don't seem to edit Wikipedia...
> >
> > The 'mo' language code has been officially deprecated from ISO 639-1/2
> > as of November 3, 2008; "Moldovan" in general use is just Romanian, and
> > is covered by ro.wikipedia.org.
> >
> > mo.wikipedia.org has not actually been edited since December 2006.
> > mo.wiktionary.org seems to have.... 4 definition pages, which only
> > contain translations (no definitions!) Being inactive, these projects
> > could be closed in addition to / instead of the rename.
> >
> > Use of tag 'mo-cyrl' would follow existing IANA-registered language
> > subtags such as 'bs-Cyrl' and 'bs-Latn' for Cyrillic and Latin script
> > variants.
> >
> > Most likely, for compatibility we would redirect the existing 'mo' URLs
> > to the new 'mo-cyrl' ones, but they would now be visibly marked by the
> > subtag as being "yes we know, it's Cyrillic here". If we're going to
> > lock the site as well, adding a sitenotice pointing to the Romanian wiki
> > is probably wise.
> >
> >
> > == Belorusian "old orthography" ==
> >
> > be-x-old.wikipedia.org -> be-tarask.wikipedia.org
> >
> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9823
> >
> > Some time ago we swapped around the Belorusian Wikipedia, moving the
> > previous version which was primarily using a non-official orthography,
> > from 'be' to 'be-x-old', and re-establishing be.wikipedia.org using the
> > official state orthography.
> >
> > There was later a request to rename 'be-x-old' (using a non-standard
> > code) to 'be-tarask', a IANA-registered subtag which is rather more
> > descriptive. IMHO this change should not be terribly controversial -- if
> > we're not closing it, we may as well give it its official RFC
> > 4646-registered code.
> >
> > Old domain and interwikis would be redirected.
> >
> >
> > -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
> >
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