[Wikipedia-l] new language wikis

[Jimmy Wales]

The proper thing to do, it was decided, is to use the 'language codes'.  You
can find this in the discussion on wikipedia, or...

http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm

The two letter codes should be preferred, but the 3 letter codes should probably
just magically work if someone happens to use one of them.

Jason Richey wrote:

> Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix.  So, now you
> are all welcome to use:
> 
> catalan.wikipedia.com
> chinese.wikipedia.com
> esperanto.wikipedia.com
> french.wikipedia.com
> deutsche.wikipedia.com
> hebrew.wikipedia.com
> italian.wikipedia.com
> japanese.wikipedia.com
> portuguese.wikipedia.com
> spanish.wikipedia.com
> russian.wikipedia.com
> 
> We are aware that the naming convention is wrong.  Why use "Deutsche"
> instead of "German" in one place, and "Spanish" instead of "Espanol"
> in another?  Simple.  We just don't know the correct words or even the
> characters to use in many cases.  So, tell us what it *should* be, and
> we'll make it so...
> 
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> "Jason C. Richey" <jasonr at bomis.com>
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