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

[Pavlo Shevelo]

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

I'm quite sure that was the main reason to pick this issue up to this
mailing list.

It seems that it's high time to create some page on Meta to place
whole list there and to collect there precedents how such issue were
solved.


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Mark Williamson<node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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