[Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon

[Pavlo Shevelo]

Hi Jon,

Thanks a lot for promt and informative (so valuable) input.

Regarding
> Wikipedias follow the ISO 639 language code standard
and
> The chapter sites, however, use the ISO 3166 standard for country codes,

all WPs and all chapters have to do that very strictly and same way,
aren't they (that's us ;) ) ?

Regarding
> ...  our usage however mirrors that of the country
> code top level domains<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain>

seems not really applicable to situation except for
http://wikimedia.org.uk
which is not disputable same as http://wikimedia.org.uk (yes, again
"same as" :) )

So it seems logical (including Nikola Smolenski thought) that one and
only fair usage for
>> http://uk.wikimedia.org
is to serve for placement of informative disabiguation page as
> ... "uk" is unused;


2009/7/22 Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby at gmail.com>:
> Wikipedias follow the ISO 639
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639>language code standard, where
> "uk" is the code for the Ukrainian language.
> The chapter sites, however, use the ISO
> 3166<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166>standard for country codes,
> and "ua" is the code for the country of Ukraine.
>
> (There is however the fact that the ISO 3166 code for the United Kingdom is
> "gb", while "uk" is unused; our usage however mirrors that of the country
> code top level domains<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain>
> .)
>
> 2009/7/22 Pavlo Shevelo <pavlo.shevelo at gmail.com>
>
>> Hello Teofilo,
>>
>> I appreciate a lot that you rose up this issue of confusion (I was
>> planning to do that myself a bit later).
>>
>> I'm from Ukrainian WP (recently - from WMF chapter for Ukraine as
>> well) and I've met many times those confusions/misunderstandings
>> starting from
>> http://uk.wikipedia.org
>> vs.
>> http://uk.wikimedia.org
>>
>> I'm sure that this issue deserves some portion of attention & thorough
>> brainstorming ;)
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Teofilo<teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello everybody;
>> >
>> > This is to say that I have written a piece on this topic at :
>> >
>> >
>> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Ukraine,_isn't_it_<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Ukraine,_isn%27t_it_>
>> ?
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