[Wikipedia-l] new language wikis

[Larry Sanger]

When you've done what Jimbo says, can you post an anouncement on
Wikipedia-L?  I want to post a big announcement about it on Interpret-L.
This is going to be very cool...

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at aristotle.bomis.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] new language wikis


> 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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> >
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