be-x-old.wikipedia.org has been waiting to be renamed since 2007, so
apparently it's not a quick process.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Kartik Mistry <kartik.mis...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
> <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> > In a few projects the language code in the domain is different from the
> > actual language code: 'als' is a code for Tosk Albanian, but
> > als.wikipedia.org is written in Alemanic; 'no' is a code for both Bokmal
> > Norwegian and Nynorsk Norwegian, but no.wikipedia.org is only Bokmal;
> and
> > there are several other examples.
> >
> > In the past when requests to rename such domains were raised, the usual
> > replies were along the lines of "it's impossible" or "it's not worth the
> > technical effort", but I don't know the details.
>
> Also see: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T21986 (Wikis waiting to
> be renamed (tracking))
>
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