[Wikipedia-l] Re: I want to start a new language... with the code"eg" please.

[Andre Engels]

"Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com> schrieb:

> My general feeling is that unless there's some very good reason not to
> have a particular language, we should have it.  Some good reasons that
> I can think of: (1) the language is a joke or vanity project (2) the
> language is just a slight change of dialect from some other language.
> 
> For example, it would be bad to have a Klingon Wikipedia, I think.  It
> would be bad to have separate sites for British and American English.
> 
> And finally, I think that it's very very convenient for us to avoid
> arguments about this by reference to ISO standards.  We could, in some
> cases, make exceptions, but we should be cautious about doing so.

I have before proposed to go with ISO 639-2. Main rule for ISO 639-2 is
that there should be 50 different documents divided over at most 50
places. I would not put it as a hard rule, but I'd say that for languages
outside ISO 639-2, the onus is with the person wanting to add it to give
reasons, while for languages within, the onus is with those who want to
refrain from adding it.

Andre Engels