I'd like to discuss more on the IANA subtag, but do you happen to know if the [email protected] mailing list still operating or not? As I seems to be unable to subscribe it. 2015/10/27 3:10 "Michael Everson" <[email protected]>:
> “Basic English” is a well-defined language form, but “simple” is not. > That’s one problem. > > I’m the IANA subtag registrar, if you didn’t know it. Maybe “wpsimple” > would be precise enough. Are there other Simple Wikipedias? > > > On 25 Oct 2015, at 09:46, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Problem: The Simple English Wikipedia uses "simple" for the domain ( > simple.wikipedia.org ) and "en" for its language. This is a problem > because: > > * The domain is different from the language code. > > * The language code is the same as in the English Wikipedia. > > > > These two problems definitely create several issues for the > ContentTranslation extension and possibly other components. It's possible > to work around them, but it's better to straighten things out by changing > the language code. > > > > The last time I tried to bring this up some people thought that I am > proposing to create a new top-level ISO 639-3 language code for it, but > this is definitely not my intention. Rather, I suggest to go forward with > something like "en-simple". The language in question is a variant of > another one, so a subtag makes sense, but I'd love it to be standardized. > > > > Should it be proposed as a new entry to the IANA language subtag > registry? I couldn't find anything appropriate at > http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry > and I am not familiar with the proposal process. > > > > Is "en-simple" a good suggestion? Or should be something like > "en-wpsimple", like "en-oxendict" (an actually registered variant of Oxford > English dictionary)? > > > > If I recall correctly, Wikipedians already got be-tarask registered > successfully, > > Because the orthography was well-defined. > > > so this sounds possible to do, but I'd love your advice before going > forward. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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