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

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:

>Brion Vibber (brion at pobox.com) [050329 09:22]:
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>>David Gerard wrote:
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>>>Worse than that even - sh: was Serbo-Croatian, then they were separated at
>>>some stage. Anyone know the history?
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>>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
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>yay w00t!
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>>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.
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>Possibly not a great place for an officially affiliated Foundation chapter
>as yet.
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That varies with the country.  The political fault lines are already 
clearer than they might be in Belgium.  A Croatian foundation might work 
more easily than one in Serbia or Bosnia.

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