Hoi, Lars, you are talking about Nynorsk and I am talking about Estonian. Thanks, GerardM
2009/1/23 Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> > Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > > When we were to move away from a set of URL's from et to ekk, a > > generic redirect from et to ekk will suffice because there will > > be a one on one relation. The et named articles will never be > > used for anything else. This is true because this is how the > > standard works. > > The very point of the suggestion to change no.wikipedia into > nb.wikipedia is that Nynorsk extremists want to *deny* the Bokmål > majority the privilege of using the common "no" code as theirs. > > The agenda of these extremists has no room for allowing redirects > from no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo to nb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo, > because that would perpetuate the Bokmål oppression. In the > discussions, even the word "occupation" has been used. In their > mind, the no.* URL should force the reader to pick either the > Bokmål or Nynorsk article. That is, to stop and consider that > there are more versions of Norwegian than Bokmål. There must be > no default. If there is a default (a redirect), then today's > naming would seem OK. > > As long as we recognize Nynorsk speakers some "right" to claim > that "no" is theirs (too), our naming of sites will continue to > get hijacked by such extremists. Our only escape is to refuse to > recognize the political meaning of language codes in our domain > names, and instead treat them as being just domain names that once > assigned should not be changed unless for really good reasons. > (Changing fiu-vro to the shorter vro can be a good reason, but > changing et to ekk is not.) > > > -- > Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l