Hi Jon, Thanks a lot for promt and informative (so valuable) input.
Regarding > Wikipedias follow the ISO 639 language code standard and > The chapter sites, however, use the ISO 3166 standard for country codes, all WPs and all chapters have to do that very strictly and same way, aren't they (that's us ;) ) ? Regarding > ... our usage however mirrors that of the country > code top level > domains<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain> seems not really applicable to situation except for http://wikimedia.org.uk which is not disputable same as http://wikimedia.org.uk (yes, again "same as" :) ) So it seems logical (including Nikola Smolenski thought) that one and only fair usage for >> http://uk.wikimedia.org is to serve for placement of informative disabiguation page as > ... "uk" is unused; 2009/7/22 Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]>: > Wikipedias follow the ISO 639 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639>language code standard, where > "uk" is the code for the Ukrainian language. > The chapter sites, however, use the ISO > 3166<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166>standard for country codes, > and "ua" is the code for the country of Ukraine. > > (There is however the fact that the ISO 3166 code for the United Kingdom is > "gb", while "uk" is unused; our usage however mirrors that of the country > code top level > domains<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain> > .) > > 2009/7/22 Pavlo Shevelo <[email protected]> > >> Hello Teofilo, >> >> I appreciate a lot that you rose up this issue of confusion (I was >> planning to do that myself a bit later). >> >> I'm from Ukrainian WP (recently - from WMF chapter for Ukraine as >> well) and I've met many times those confusions/misunderstandings >> starting from >> http://uk.wikipedia.org >> vs. >> http://uk.wikimedia.org >> >> I'm sure that this issue deserves some portion of attention & thorough >> brainstorming ;) >> >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Teofilo<[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello everybody; >> > >> > This is to say that I have written a piece on this topic at : >> > >> > >> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Ukraine,_isn't_it_<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Ukraine,_isn%27t_it_> >> ? >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > foundation-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > > -- > Jon Harald Søby > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
