GerardM wrote:
Hoi,
It is quite relevant that the orthography is an IANA and not an ISO-code. In
the request for the code there is no solution as there are two codes needed
to be able to distinguish on the code level the different orthographies.
They only requested a code for the "tarask" vairiety and not the standard
one. Furthermore in the correspondence associated with it, they do not
accept that "be" is implicitly the standard orthography.
Consequently, the project under be-x-old can have internally the codes
be-tarask, this allows for the proper tagging of the data itself. I do not
agree to a name change of the project. The best thing would be when both
projects get of their ideological / politcal high horse and collaborate.
I've renamed the language files and set the language code be-tarask. The
subdomain is still be-x-old.
Berto 'd Sera wrote:
So it would be
worth rename be-x-old to be-tarask and close the problem
> with that :)
No. you miss three steps:
1) we check that your code is a legal ISO 639-3 code (I'll do that myself)
2) your linguistic entity is deviant enough from the normative version to be
granted more than just an alternative interface (many of you claimed it to
be "like en_us vs en_uk", remember? Well, we don't have an en_us.wiki).
3) your community starts to behave as wmf a community (unity, no hatred,
co-operation, etc).
None of these steps are required before changing the language code in
MediaWiki, as I have done. Localisations in MediaWiki are identified by
RFC 4646 tags, and no significant difference between variants is required.
-- Tim Starling