On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> wrote:
> Kjetil Lenes wrote: > > > If you consider Norwegian nynorsk to be a dialect, you have your > > facts wrong. It is one of two written forms of norwegian, they > > have the same legal standing. > > I'm not talking about dialects or legal standing. I'm talking > about renaming thousands of URLs, breaking incoming links from > other websites, for no good reason. Once assigned, good URLs such > as no.wikipedia.org and et.wikipedia.org should not be changed. > > ISO can decide tomorrow that English should be xy and French > should be ab. We shouldn't follow such changes. It is a totally > different issue that we consult ISO when we open a new project. > I agree wholeheartedly, and I believe I brought up the same point last time around. If a language code that we already use is changed by ISO, then we most certainly should not be changing it. At least not without a very VERY strong consensus to do so. I'm all for following ISO for language names/codes, but to follow it blindly without a dose of common sense--and to decide that a project should be renamed without said project's input--is just absurd. -Chad _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l