[Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

[Cetateanu Moldovanu]

Hello, I want to wish you all a Happy New Year !

Also, I'd like to know what's the progress of renaming the subdomain "mo" to
"mo-cyrl" mo.wikipedia.org -> mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org, as was stated in
november last year, an important issue for us.

Thanks for your activity.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 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...
>


> == 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.