Hoi!
As per not communicating the swap you are absolutely right and I excuse
myself personally. I know it won't help much but as you can understand this
is not "everyday business" and we have no standard procedure to manage such
events. Yet I read Byelorussian and it should have been my own
responsibility to reach you and inform you. I did not do it and I officially
excuse myself for that.
Feel free to contact me personally at any time for any possible problem, you
can write in Russian if it makes things easier. I will have to answer in
English only if the answer has to be notified to LangCom, as I'm the only
Russian speaker in LangCom and a Cyrillic answer would not be of any use to
the other members.
Now to the answers: the domain is being setup by Brion these days, AFAIK
there are a few minor technical problems, but that's all. It should be up
very quickly.
Domain names are not "fabricated" on community demand; they follow an
international ISO standard. The X part means it's a private code that has
value for wmf only (it's a standard, too). Under the current rules the wiki
should be simply shutdown, since it does not have an ISO code.
The Board decided to delegate an ad hoc Committee for this kind of decisions
and IMHO that's a good warranty for everyone. In the meantime we decided not
to have any particular descriptive code for the old Byelorussian edition,
since it would have implied some kind of political recognition, which is NOT
what wmf is about.
If in the future your linguistic flavor will obtain a valid ISO code we will
be glad to adopt it just as we adopt any other internationally recognized
code, but we are not willing to issue ANY code on our own. This is a final
decision.
DISCLAIMER: this is my personal POV and NOT a collective statement from wmf
LangCom.
Berto 'd Sera
Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
-----Original Message-----
From: wikipedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Eugene Zelenko
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:34 PM
To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] New language
Hi!
Be however
warned that there have been no proposals accepted in the
last few months.
This is a bit pessimistic :) The normative Byelorussian wikipedia
just was
created and substituted the old version, the latter was renamed into
be-x-old.
When be-x-old will be available? And why nobody asked opinion of
ex-BE:WP community regarding domain name?
Also, I think, will be good idea to notify about such swaps in future...
With best regards,
Eugene.
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