Why exactly is this urgent? I am quite sure this language is not eligible, even if it gets an ISO 639-3 code (do we use 639-2 at all by the way?), as it fail the criterion to be "sufficiently unique that it could not coexist on a more general wiki".
2017-12-26 23:43 GMT+01:00 Steven White <koala19...@hotmail.com>: > I was going to hold off on this until the holidays are over, but rather > remarkably, unless somebody hacked the Library of Congress's web site > <https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_changes.php>, > Montenegrin has been granted an ISO 639–2 code ("cnr"). This has been in > the air over the last month, and represents the first addition to ISO 639–2 > in over five years. The Montenegrin community is jumping for joy, and I've > just full-protected the page Requests for new languages/Wikipedia > Montenegrin 5 > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Montenegrin_5> > on Meta because the discussion is getting out of hand. > > > If srwiki, hrwiki and bswiki didn't exist, we wouldn't have to create this > one, either. But I have to admit that I don't really see any way we can > currently justify not approving this project (as "eligible"). My questions > are, therefore: > > > - Am I right about that? > - Is LangCom willing to see this project marked as "eligible" based on > an ISO 639-2 code alone? > - The rules are that non-collective ISO 639-2 codes are supposed to be > reflected in ISO 639-3 as well. So do I wait until this code is published > by SIL? > - If so, what happens if SIL does not take action? > > > Steven > > > Sent from Outlook <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > >
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