Hoi,<br>On the Wikimedia Foundation there has been an extended
politically oriented struggle where the proponents of this
"orthography" prevented the official Belarus orthography from being
used. This resulted in a request to get a new project for the official
Belarus orthography. <br><br>The Wikimedia Foundation language committee was asked to deal with this. This resulted in the renaming of what used to be the <a href="http://be.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
be.wikipedia.org</a> to <a href="http://be-x-old.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
be-x-old.wikipedia.org</a>. The official orthography was given the <a href="http://be.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">be.wikipedia.org</a> domain.<br><br>Based
on the information that was in front of us, we did not request a tag
for this orthography because the original orthography that was in use
has to have been infused with many new words in order to be usable in a
modern setting. Also the information we had suggested that this
"orthography" is a recent invention that is politically motivated. The
notion that this is reflecting a historic orthography is imho a wrong.
<br><br>Given that the differences between the two orthographies are
minor; less than the differences between British and American English,
the language committee wants the two groups to work together in one
project. This would prevent two biased projects. An other argument to
deny a separate project is that the allocation of languages is done
based on ISO-639 codes. This requested code does not qualify.
<br><br>Thanks,<br> Gerard<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Everson</b> <<a href="mailto:everson@evertype.com">everson@evertype.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Is there another orthography of Belarusian that we need to know about<br>in order to evaluate this?<br>--<br>Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com">http://www.evertype.com</a><br>_______________________________________________
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