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

[Mark Williamson]

Yes same issue for Sinhala (of Sri Lanka) and the country code for
Slovenia - SI or Burmese and Malaysia - MY or Virgin Islands and
Vietnamese - VI.

I'm sure there are several other cases as well.

Mark

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Milos Rancic<millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wikimedia Serbia and Serbian language projects have similar problem
> with Suriname: The code for Serbian language is sr, while the code for
> Serbia is rs. It is interesting that .sr code was one of the preferred
> codes for some Serbian sites for a long time: it is free and for a
> long time Serbia used .yu.
>
> So, sr.wikipedia.org is the proper name for Wikipedia in Serbian.
> rs.wikimedia.org is the proper name for Wikimedia Serbia site.
> However, we have a mailing list wikimediasr-l, which is used as a
> generic public list for all projects in Serbian, not for Wikimedia
> Serbia. And in some not so near future we'll have to solve this.
>
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