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Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Registration open for the Hackathon in
Berlin, May 13-15
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:15:52 +0100
From: Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de
Reply-To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
Hoi,
As you know, the two people from India who have done development work are
Santhosh and Junaid. Santhosh is already coming to Berlin as a member of the
Language committee. Junaid works like so many children of India at the
moment in the UAE.. grin that makes it even less expensive for him to
Indian Parliament approves new name for Oriya language and Orissa state.
Now onwards the Oriya language will be called as *Odia* and the Orissa state
will hereafter be called *Odisha*.
More detailed news here:
If ISO code also changes correspondingly from or to od, we should perhaps move
wiki projects as well?
- Sundar
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award
ISO code change is a matter of change, I feel our focus should be more into
give Wikipedia more maturity and stability rather than spending time for
mere name change, changes should be in work not just the name, it's a good
news infact for being an Odia and calling myself from Odisha, but
Oh, I didn't know the origins. For me, Oriya and Orissa are more comfortable
(being the way we write in Tamil).
And, I agree that building the wiki is more important.
Regards,
Sundar
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Hoi,
The or code is from the ISO-639-1, the code in the ISO-639-3 is ori. The
codes are meant as a unique identifier and making them easy to remember is
in some way helpful in others it is problematic. It is problematic because
all the existing expressions in a language will still be known by the
