I've marked this as rejected. 2017-03-02 11:43 GMT+01:00 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Oliver Stegen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > As a linguist I cannot support the argument that "it is only a dialect", > as > > the continuum between language and dialect is often arbitrary and > political. > > However, based on the argument that Sichuanese Mandarin does not have an > ISO > > code, I support the rejection of this request. Should they succeed in > > getting an ISO code for their language (for which there seems to be good > > reason if I understood the linguistic arguments correctly), then the > request > > can be reopened or renewed. > > While I agree with rejection in this case, I would add here one > (generic) set of arguments why following ISO 639-3 strictly is not > appropriate for Wikimedia (and the other one in relation to > Prekmurian). > > Wikipedia is not just about a language, but about a *written* > language. For example, written phonetically, English varieties could > be even more different than Eastern Scandinavian languages (including > Norwegian Bokmal) or East Slavic languages. However, they've been > written in a couple of very similar orthographies and there is no > reason to create the set of Wikimedia projects in Texan English. > > In the Chinese case, it goes even further: As long as the syntax is > more or less the same and the same characters are used to designate > the same concepts, creating a project in a Chinese variety (not just > Mandarin) would be redundant. In other words, any request for > Wikimedia projects in Chinese written in Han should convince us that > their variety is distinctive enough to have a separate project, no > matter of having an ISO 639-3 code. > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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