Amir, I think this is a good idea. For the sake of consistency, we should choose a single standard to follow rather than a hodge-podge of newer standards, older (although still valid) standards, and ad hoc codes we made up on the spot (als, nrm) and custom codes (bat-smg, roa-tara, roa-rup, fiu-vro, map-bms, be-x-old). It also seems potentially confusing to me that we have codes that overlap, for example na.wp and nap.wp, ro.wp and roa-rup.wp, etc.
-m. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Did anyone ever consider completely migrating WMF projects to > three-letter language codes? Currently two-letter ISO 639-1 code are > used whenever possible and three-letter ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-3 codes > are used when a two-letter code is not available. > > Among the three-letter codes currently having Wikipedias are Sicilian > (scn), Kashubian (csb), Nahuatl (nah), Udmurt (udm) and Mari (mhr). > > Using three-letter codes for all languages seems to me like a more > egalitarian approach. > > Two-letter URL's must, of course, be kept as redirects. > > Can anyone think about any problems with this? > > -- > אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > Amir Elisha Aharoni > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > "We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > 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