Gerard,

We do not have any top-level BCP 47 tags.

Wikimedia is already using BCP 47 subtags without any trouble.

> On 4 Jul 2017, at 15:16, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hoi,
> In the case of macro languages and BCP 47 codes there is a need for a two 
> third majority. The first is something that should be prevented as much as 
> possible because it prevents projects that are part of the macro language. 
> For the BCP 47 there should be a real linguistic point in having them and we 
> should try to prevent them as they are often more of a political than 
> linguistic reality.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
> 
> On 9 February 2017 at 17:00, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote:
> One issue: voting.
> 
> == Voting ==
> 
> This is also proposal, so read it and comment if you don't agree or
> you want any addition.
> 
> 1) No voting
> 
> 1.1) According to the Closing projects policy [1], particular member
> of the committee analyzes discussion and, if decides that the project
> should be closed, sends the request to WMF Board.
> 
> 1.2) Clear-cut situations for making a language eligible for Wikimedia
> projects: the language has a valid ISO 639-3 code, there are no
> significant issues in relation to the language itself, the population
> of speakers is significant, request made by a native speaker. In this
> case, any committee member can mark language / project eligible.
> 
> 1.3) Approval without obvious formal requirements. No project will be
> approved without them.
> 
> 2) Simple majority (of those who expressed opinion)
> 
> 2.1) Eligibility of a language with a valid ISO 639-3 code, but
> without significant population of native speakers. (Note: this covers
> ancient, constructed, reviving and languages with small number of
> speakers.)
> 
> 2.2) Eligibility of a language without a valid ISO 639-3 code, but
> valid BCP 47 code. (Note: this covers Ecuadorian Quechua.)
> 
> 2.3) Eligibility of a language with significant collision between
> prescriptive and descriptive information. (Note: this covers
> "macrolangauges".)
> 
> 2.4) Project approval if not 1.3.
> 
> 3) 2/3 majority (of those who expressed opinion)
> 
> 3.1) Any change of the rules, including the committee's role in
> possible changes of the Language proposal policy [2] and Closing
> projects policy [1].
> 
> 4) Consensus (of those who expressed opinion)
> 
> 4.1) A new member of the Language committee should not be opposed by
> any of the current committee member.
> 
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy
> 
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