[Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] vro

[Kjetil Lenes]

If you consider Norwegian nynorsk to be a dialect, you have your facts 
wrong. It is one of two written forms of norwegian, they have the same 
legal standing.

Kjetil Lenes

Lars Aronsson skreiv:
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
>   
>> It is nice that you oppose, there are reasons why it might be a 
>> bad idea, but the ones that I know are not the ones you put 
>> forward. A reason why a change would be good is that it will 
>> prevent confusion.
>>     
>
> Come on, nobody is confused about what language Estonian is.  If 
> giving a language code to a local dialect means we have to rename 
> all URLs for one of the major Wikipedias (Estonian is the 34th 
> biggest, Bokmål is the 13th biggest), this only means we have to 
> oppose all future assignments of new ISO language codes.  It is OK 
> to use the standard when naming new Wikipedias, but it's not OK to 
> suddenly change a well-known address.
>
> We're here to spread free knowledge.  That is not helped by 
> renaming all of our URLs just because of some random ISO standard 
> change.  The no and et Wikipedias should be kept as they are.
>
>
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Kjetil Lenes

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