Hello, I want to wish you all a Happy New Year ! Also, I'd like to know what's the progress of renaming the subdomain "mo" to "mo-cyrl" mo.wikipedia.org -> mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org, as was stated in november last year, an important issue for us.
Thanks for your activity. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > For quick background, it's pretty painful to rename a database in our > system, and we currently have a lot of bits in our configuration that > make automatic relationships between the database name and the domain > name, so this has delayed renaming of some language subdomains for a while. > > It's not impossible to have them be different, just fairly awkward. :) > > I'd like to get these done soon, but before we get started, I want to > make sure the queue is complete and ready to go. I've currently got four > language code renames that I see being requested... > > == Moldovan == > > mo.wikipedia.org -> mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org > mo.wiktionary.org -> mo-cyrl.wiktionary.org > > The official Moldovan language is the same as Romanian, using Latin > script and same orthography as on ro.wikipedia.org. Latin script was > officially adopted in 1989, replacing Soviet-era Cyrillic script; use of > Cyrillic script is still "official" in an unrecognized, > lightly-populated breakaway region but if people there use it, they > don't seem to edit Wikipedia... > > The 'mo' language code has been officially deprecated from ISO 639-1/2 > as of November 3, 2008; "Moldovan" in general use is just Romanian, and > is covered by ro.wikipedia.org. > > mo.wikipedia.org has not actually been edited since December 2006. > mo.wiktionary.org seems to have.... 4 definition pages, which only > contain translations (no definitions!) Being inactive, these projects > could be closed in addition to / instead of the rename. > > Use of tag 'mo-cyrl' would follow existing IANA-registered language > subtags such as 'bs-Cyrl' and 'bs-Latn' for Cyrillic and Latin script > variants. > > Most likely, for compatibility we would redirect the existing 'mo' URLs > to the new 'mo-cyrl' ones, but they would now be visibly marked by the > subtag as being "yes we know, it's Cyrillic here". If we're going to > lock the site as well, adding a sitenotice pointing to the Romanian wiki > is probably wise. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
