National chapters (was Re: [Foundation-l] UK Wikimedia Foundation notes)

[David Gerard]

Brion Vibber (brion at pobox.com) [050329 09:22]:
> David Gerard wrote:

> >Worse than that even - sh: was Serbo-Croatian, then they were separated at
> >some stage. Anyone know the history?
 
> The ISO 639 language code 'sh' for Serbo-Croatian was officially
> deprecated over five years ago:
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html
 

yay w00t!


> While I'm sure a happy world in which the violent breakup of Yugoslavia
> never happened would be great, the fact is that it did happen, and the
> resulting nations are heavily invested in playing up nationalistic
> ethnic and linguistic differences.
> I don't particularly care whether someone attempts to re-merge them or
> not, but you're going to run into very annoyed people either way.


Possibly not a great place for an officially affiliated Foundation chapter
as yet.


- d.