[Wikipedia-l] Võro Vikipeediä

[Gerard Meijssen]

Mark Williamson wrote:

>Yes, but it has not been released yet, and according to Brion we won't
>use it until it is.
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>So, unless they want to wait until some time in 2006 for their own
>Wikipedia, we'll have to make do with a non-3-letter code.
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>Mark
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The to be released ISO 639 codes will be used in a proper manner; codes 
published will only be used for the proposed use and when this use is 
withdrawn the codes will not be re-used. I am interested to know WHY we 
would not use these codes.

Gerard

>On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:22:09 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
><gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Mark Williamson wrote:
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>>>I propose that we use something like fiu-voro as the language code
>>>(there is no ethnolgue code for Voro because it lists it as a dialect
>>>of Estonian).
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>>>The issue of a code nonwithstanding, I think it should be set up right away.
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>>>Mark
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>>>On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:11:58 +0000, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>Forwarding from foundation-l to wikipedia-l since there was no
>>>>reaction on that list....
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>>>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>From: Sulev Iva <juvasul at ut.ee>
>>>>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:43:52 +0200
>>>>Subject: [Foundation-l] Võro Vikipeediä
>>>>To: foundation-l at wikimedia.org
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>>>>Dear members of the foundaton,
>>>>I'm a user of Estonian (Võrok) and English Wikipedia (Võrolang) and a
>>>>native speaker,
>>>>researcher and activist of the Võro language spoken in Estonia. Võro
>>>>(native name Võro
>>>>or Võro kiil´) belongs to the Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric
>>>>languages. It has about
>>>>70.000 speakers mostly in southern Estonia.
>>>>Language codes (not yet official) are Vro and Vr. See more about Võro in
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Võro and http://www.wi.ee/.
>>>>
>>>>I and my friends would like to begin with Võro language Wikipedia. We
>>>>can translate
>>>>Estonian language file to Võro (actually we have already started) and begin with
>>>>creation of new articles. Of course your objection may be that there are too few
>>>>speakers of Võro. Yes, but the speakers are quite active and
>>>>computerized people and
>>>>the Võro language community needs an encyclopedia in their own
>>>>language. I'm sure the
>>>>number of potential editors in Võro is not smaller than the Kashoub,
>>>>Cornish, Gaelic,
>>>>Faroese or Saami's or many other small languages' one. I have
>>>>discussed the idea of
>>>>Võro Wikipedia with Estonian Wikipedia developers: Andres, Ker, Klaus etc.
>>>>(http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:Community_Portal#V.C3.B5rukeelne_Wikipedia).
>>>>They are supporting the idea and will help us. I hope you will support us too.
>>>>Best regards, Võrolang -- 80.235.61.143 11:33, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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>>There is a code for Voro in the upcoming version of ISO-639 it will be vor.
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>>Thanks,
>>    GerardM
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