It seems to me that the best immediate solution is for us to assign them a 
q-code, maybe qmp.  This has the following advantages:

  *   It's something we can do without worrying about anyone else. Q-codes are 
for local use, so what we do with them is our business.
  *   It's unlikely ever to be overridden by a decision on the part of someone 
else (SIL or a successor) to assign the code to someone else.
  *   In order for us to maintain compatibility with ISO-compliant systems, we 
can easily redirect arn.wik*.org > qmp.wik*.org, just as we do now with 
redirections like yue > zh-yue.
  *   Presumably, if the code arn ever is changed, we could move qmp wikis to 
the new code in the future. (OK, this has proved hard even now. But if/when it 
gets solved for already-existing cases, it will be solved for this case as 
well.)

I suppose it's possible that someone, somewhere, is using qmp for some other 
local use, and that this will interfere. I think the chance of there being a 
truly material conflict anywhere is remote. And short of our getting someone to 
change the code—which may or may not be appropriate, but in any case is not 
directly within our power—this is probably the best solution in terms of both 
(a) local ability to implement and (b) unlikeliness of interference in outside 
systems.

The Mapuche test projects on Incubator have not been very active lately. It 
shouldn't be too much trouble to move them from W?/arn > W?/qmp.

Steven White (Incubator administrator)


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