Hoi,
I am dead set against it.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 18 May 2017 at 15:26, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, that seems like an option. We shouldn't perpetuate institutional
> racism of other important internet organizations.
>
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Steven White <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > 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)
> >
> >
> > Sent from Outlook
> >
> >
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