On 17 May 2017, at 12:51, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote: > In relation to the ISO 639-3 code for Mapudungun (see below), I’ve asked > Christophe, Board chair, if we could find the way that Language committee > fill the form in the name of Wikimedia Foundation. The answer is "yes" if we > communicate particular issue with the Board. It is important to know that > there is such an option for the future issues and not just related with ISO > 639-3.
The ISO JAC will look at arguments, not necessarily the source of a request. > === Mapudungun === > > Mapudungun has the code which Mapuche people treat as derogatory. My position > is that we should help them and make pressure over JAC to make the change. “Pressure” doesn’t work. > To be honest, I am prepared to push this into much higher level than > Wikimedia is, as they were able to change the codes for a language because > one ethnicity is inherently racist and didn’t want to be connected with the > other ethnicity by ISO 639-6 code name, while JAC are not capable to address > colonial and racist past of their own societies. I’m going to ignore this rhetoric. > Said so, Michael was quite nervous about that Nonsense. > and he will definitely vote against that when I put this on vote here. Please don’t speak for me. I have written to the JAC to ask them what they think. Michael Everson _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
