I'd notice that recently, more and more new Mozilla website came exist with this problematic ISO3166 problem.
For example, Mozilla Location Service https://location.services.mozilla.com/stats/countries Shape of the Web https://shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org/access/speed We Do Need to set a policy (similar to FreeBSD one *1) for Mozilla widely, or we will have to face all the problem again and again, once every new Mozilla website come alive. Here is also a better list for country/region entity name to use along with country code from ISO3166, http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.html *1 https://www.freebsd.org/internal/i18n.html 2015-06-05 15:16 GMT+08:00 Tim Guan-tin Chien <[email protected]>: > bump.....? any update on this? Should we move forward with an official > policy proposed here? > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 23/05/15 21:40, Mike Hoye wrote: > >> - Defer to the ISO spec. We wash our hands of the matter, in other > >> words. This sends a very clear message to our community. > > > > That's what we do now, right? This is the option with the disadvantage > > that residents of Kosovo, if required to pick a country, must pick > > either Serbia or Albania? > > > >> - Use the ISO spec plus a bunch of extra rules we make up. Charitably, I > >> will call this a very bad idea. We should absolutely not do this. > > > > Would you put the FreeBSD policy into this category? > > http://www.freebsd.org/internal/i18n.html > > > > You may say there's a slippery slope, but if you start from the ISO > > spec, changing "Taiwan, Province of China" to simply "Taiwan" seems like > > an obvious and widely-adopted improvement, which removes offence from > > one set of people and (combined with a "Country or Region" label) does > > not offend anyone else. > > > > Is it really beyond our capabilities to figure out which rules fall into > > the category of "clear improvement" and which do not? > > > >> - Make it a freeform text field and trust our people to exercise their > >> best judgement as members of the Mozilla community. > > > > (For completeness: I proposed a way to do this that wouldn't entirely > > break geographic search.) > > > > Gerv > > > > _______________________________________________ > > governance mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > -- @ irvinfly: community liaison moztw.org Mozilla Taiwan community _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
