[Wikipedia-l] Re: new language wikis

[Jason Richey]

I made it a bit more sensible.  You can now access these wikis by
using their two character or three character identifiers, as defined
in the ISO 639 standard (http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm).
Note that I have not added all of the languages from te webpage above,
only thos listed below.  You can now access the pages at any one of
many different urls.  For example, the chinese wiki is available at
zh.wikipedia.com, zho.wikipedia.com, chi.wikipedia.com, and
chinese.wikipedia.com.  They all point to the same data, so any url is
as good as the nex.  However, the "official" url is the one with the
two character code (zh.wikipedia.com in this example).  Hope this
works for everyone.

Jason

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...
> 
> -- 
> "Jason C. Richey" <jasonr at bomis.com>
> 

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