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.
Kjetil Lenes Lars Aronsson skreiv: > Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > >> It is nice that you oppose, there are reasons why it might be a >> bad idea, but the ones that I know are not the ones you put >> forward. A reason why a change would be good is that it will >> prevent confusion. >> > > Come on, nobody is confused about what language Estonian is. If > giving a language code to a local dialect means we have to rename > all URLs for one of the major Wikipedias (Estonian is the 34th > biggest, Bokmål is the 13th biggest), this only means we have to > oppose all future assignments of new ISO language codes. It is OK > to use the standard when naming new Wikipedias, but it's not OK to > suddenly change a well-known address. > > We're here to spread free knowledge. That is not helped by > renaming all of our URLs just because of some random ISO standard > change. The no and et Wikipedias should be kept as they are. > > > -- Kjetil Lenes OBS! Ny epostadresse: [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
