Re: [Wikipedia-l] Võro Vikipeediä

[Mark Williamson]

Because it's not official yet.

Mark

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:51:04 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
> 
> >Yes, but it has not been released yet, and according to Brion we won't
> >use it until it is.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
> 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 withdrawn the codes will not be re-used.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:
> >
> >
> >>Mark Williamson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>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).
> >>>
> >>>The issue of a code nonwithstanding, I think it should be set up right away.
> >>>
> >>>Mark
> >>>
> >>>On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:11:58 +0000, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Forwarding from foundation-l to wikipedia-l since there was no
> >>>>reaction on that list....
> >>>>
> >>>>---------- 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
> >>>>
> >>>>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.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>    GerardM
> >>
> >>
> >>
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