https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23215

--- Comment #9 from Clemens Kienzle <[email protected]> 2011-05-22 
17:26:52 UTC ---
Thanks for your quick reply, I'm not freaking out quite as much, now that
you've said that the move won't take place right away;) But since I wasn't
informed and only found out about this by chance, I don't know where to write. 

In a nutshell: the classification and codes made by the Ethnologue (which ISO
codes are based on) are total nonsense linguistically (basically because much
like Wikipedia, many Ethnologue entries are provided by whoever files a
request, regardless of qualification). I have filed a request with ISO to
change the various codes for Alemannic (gsw, swg, wae, gct) to something more
in line with current linguistic consensus. The Ethnologue and ISO will likely
follow my suggestions at some point, which could result in a completely new
code, or in GSW for all of Alemannic. But until that decision has been made by
the Ethnologue, the project should not be moved at all. Otherwise we might just
end up having to move it again, which would have a very negative impact on the
project in my eyes.

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