[Foundation-l] Language codes to rename, 1 year passed, nothing happened

2009-12-19 Thread Cetateanu Moldovanu
On Wed Nov 26 01:04:12 UTC 2008 a strategy about subdomains rename was made public http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/047554.html But to our regret, nothing happened until now, just to make sure you do not forget, I want to reiterate how *IMPORTANT that you rename that

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-19 Thread H
And the renaming of zh-yue: to yue: (or at least the promised redirect) is long overdue (see [[bugzilla:8217]]). H. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-19 Thread H
And it would greatly facilitate interwiki traffics to have a code for a multilingual site (e.g. for the betawikiversity: and the multilingual wikisource, and the proposed multilingual wikibooks). See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13334 H.

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-19 Thread H
Beta wikiversity is a hub for multiligual cooperation and the incubator is just part of it. The proposed multilingual wikibooks is for hosting books which cannot find home comfortably in any language edition. It is fitting to have, for example, the link from a page in cs:Wikiversity to

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-19 Thread Ray Saintonge
H wrote: Beta wikiversity is a hub for multiligual cooperation and the incubator is just part of it. The proposed multilingual wikibooks is for hosting books which cannot find home comfortably in any language edition. It is fitting to have, for example, the link from a page in

[Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-17 Thread Kjetil Lenes
I have added a bug report, 17047 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17047, wishing to move no.wikipedia.org to nb.wikipediaorg. As several of you know no is the code for both forms of norwegian, both bokmaal (nb) and nynorsk (nn). Since both forms of norwegian have their own

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-17 Thread Jon Harald Søby
This isuue is about to be voted upon on nowiki; Kjetil is a bit too eager here. 2009/1/17 Kjetil Lenes ekkoe...@online.no I have added a bug report, 17047 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17047, wishing to move no.wikipedia.org to nb.wikipediaorg. As several of you know no is

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-17 Thread Jon Harald Søby
Sure. The vote will be held here: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avstemninger/Prefiks It is scheduled to start at 19 Jan and end on 1 Feb. 2009/1/17 Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com Hi Jon, Do you have a link to the voting page so that interested parties may follow it? Thanks

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-17 Thread Kjetil Lenes
The vote on nn: is here: http://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Samfunnshuset#Avstemming And of course everything should wait untill both norwegian wikis have had there say. Regards, Kjetil ekkoekko @online.no Jon Harald Søby skreiv: Sure. The vote will be held here:

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-17 Thread Cetateanu Moldovanu
...@wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:44:47 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: - The language is called Moldovan, but Moldovan is also spoken in Transnistria - In Transnistria

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, This is an old old story with the same arguments repeated again and again. - The language is called Moldovan, but Moldovan is also spoken in Transnistria - In Transnistria they write Cyrillic - In Transnistria the Moldovan constitution is not recognised - .. Yes, the Moldovan

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Cetateanu Moldovanu
correction of my previous mail.. /s/When you say I write english with latin scripts, When you say We write english with latin scripts /s/Here is a facebook group It's a facebook petition On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, This is an old old

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Cetateanu Moldovanu
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: - The language is called Moldovan, but Moldovan is also spoken in Transnistria - In Transnistria they write Cyrillic perfect, then http://mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org/ is for them - In Transnistria the

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
From: Cetateanu Moldovanu cetatean...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org; br...@wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:44:47 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Marcus Buck
Geoffrey Plourde hett schreven: I am sure he will handle the rename as soon as he can, but patience is key. cough, please be patient! It's only been three years since mo.wikipedia was closed. The case will be handled as soon as one of our service team members becomes available. Marcus

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Could this thread be killed, please. We will never be able to get rid of this, starting all over again once per month. Cheers Yaroslav ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 8:45:31 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename Geoffrey Plourde hett schreven: I am sure he will handle the rename as soon as he can, but patience is key.   cough, please be patient! It's only been

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Marcus Buck
Yaroslav M. Blanter hett schreven: Could this thread be killed, please. We will never be able to get rid of this, starting all over again once per month. Cheers Yaroslav It's natural, that unresolved issues come up again. The solution is to solve the issue. It will never come up again

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Mark Williamson
Unresolved... the wiki is closed already. Sure, it hasn't reached the resolution that this particular person wants... but hey, it could be open. 2009/1/16 Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org: Yaroslav M. Blanter hett schreven: Could this thread be killed, please. We will never be able to get rid of

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
...@marcusbuck.org To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 8:45:31 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename Geoffrey Plourde hett schreven: I am sure he will handle the rename as soon as he can, but patience is key. cough, please

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 10:45:24 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename Geoffrey Plourde hett schreven: Well if we want to decrease the backlog, we could suggest that people put up money for desired extensions I know

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 10:47:20 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename Hoi, If we want to decrease the backlog, we should not invest in more extensions. We should invest in capacity to assess

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 10:47:20 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename Hoi, If we want to decrease the backlog, we should not invest in more extensions. We should invest in capacity to assess the extensions that are waiting. We should

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: NB Five hundred dollars does not cut it. A *really *good commercial programmer may bill you for this amount for a days work. $500/day isn't so much. Experienced contractors in programming can bill well upwards of

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:07:00 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename Hoi, You have no clue how much money has already been invested in Semantic MediaWiki. This is not where the problem is. The problem is in having capacity to evaluate what is there. The capacity to evaluate

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Casey Brown
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote: We got 6 million bucks, ain't we? First of all, I hate how people say this. :-) We have had a budget drafted that required $6 million, we achieved that -- that doesn't mean we just have $6 million lying around to do

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2009/1/11 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/1/11 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@gmail.com: 2009/1/11 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com: Also, I'd like to know what's the progress of renaming the subdomain mo to mo-cyrl mo.wikipedia.org - mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org, as was stated in november last year,

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-11 Thread Jon Harald Søby
2009/1/11 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@gmail.com 2009/1/10 Cetateanu Moldovanu cetatean...@gmail.com: Hello, I want to wish you all a Happy New Year ! Also, I'd like to know what's the progress of renaming the subdomain mo to mo-cyrl mo.wikipedia.org - mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org, as was

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2009/1/11 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com: Also, I'd like to know what's the progress of renaming the subdomain mo to mo-cyrl mo.wikipedia.org - mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org, as was stated in november last year, an important issue for us. For whom? Did they have an election and chose Mr.

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-11 Thread geni
2009/1/11 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@gmail.com: 2009/1/11 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com: Also, I'd like to know what's the progress of renaming the subdomain mo to mo-cyrl mo.wikipedia.org - mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org, as was stated in november last year, an important issue for us. For

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-11 Thread Mark Williamson
I think most have more important things to worry about. Mark 2009/1/11 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/1/11 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@gmail.com: 2009/1/11 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com: Also, I'd like to know what's the progress of renaming the subdomain mo to mo-cyrl mo.wikipedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-10 Thread Cetateanu Moldovanu
Hello, I want to wish you all a Happy New Year ! Also, I'd like to know what's the progress of renaming the subdomain mo to mo-cyrl mo.wikipedia.org - mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org, as was stated in november last year, an important issue for us. Thanks for your activity. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:04

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-29 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Do not forget the als.wikipedia.org. It stands for Alsatian, but the als code is the Tosk language. The gsw code is the code that should have been used. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw Adding it

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-28 Thread Casey Brown
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Finn Rindahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would take quite a lot of effort to change all those nos throughout the wikimediaworld. That shouldn't be necessary, there would be a redirect set-up. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-28 Thread Andre Engels
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Finn Rindahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I thought there already *was* a redirect set up, so that no in interwikis etc really is a redirect to nb. There is a redirect set up, but it goes in exactly the opposite direction. -- André Engels, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-27 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, That is not how things are. Against the protest of some the mo.wikipedia was locked. The request was not for locking but for complete removal. The notion that just because some people want to edit a wiki in any linguistic entity they can have their project is flatly wrong. There are

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Gerard Meijssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hoi, That is not how things are. Against the protest of some the mo.wikipedia was locked. The request was not for locking but for complete removal. The notion that just because some people want to edit a wiki in any

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-26 Thread Cetateanu Moldovanu
That's some very good news, thank you wikimedia for listening to us ! Hopefully you'll also rename (better remove) the word Молдовеняскэhttp://mo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D3%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8D witch is in cyrillic and is

[Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-25 Thread Brion Vibber
For quick background, it's pretty painful to rename a database in our system, and we currently have a lot of bits in our configuration that make automatic relationships between the database name and the domain name, so this has delayed renaming of some language subdomains for a while. It's not

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-25 Thread Mark Williamson
There have been no edits at mo.wikipedia or mo.wiktionary because both databases are locked. Mark 2008/11/25 Brion Vibber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For quick background, it's pretty painful to rename a database in our system, and we currently have a lot of bits in our configuration that make