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<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div>> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:25:20 -0400<br>> From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org<br>> To: petercon@microsoft.com<br>> Subject: Re: Language Subtag Registration -- "wpsimple"<br>> CC: ietf-languages@iana.org; amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il<br>> <br>> Peter Constable scripsit:<br>> <br>> > I really think we should register a variant subtag in this case if<br>> > it can be described as a specific variant of a particular language<br>> > without reference to any single application, and if that’s a variant<br>> > that has potential use beyond a single application.<br>> <br>> In this context, "Wikipedia" is not an application, but a set of<br>> standards. "wpsimple" means "simple according to the definitions put<br>> forward by the Wikimedia Foundation". If you write English or French<br>> or Igbo according to those standards in any context, you are entitled<br>> to tag it "wpsimple"; it is not specific to the Wikipedia application.<br>> <br>> That said, I agree that this tag is over-specific, and "simple" would<br>> be a more useful tag generally.<br>> <br>O.k. but would not it be best to then register a second variant -- /wpsimple/ -- with the prefix /simple/?<br><br>Will everyone use /wpsimple/ if it is the only subtag available for simplified language? If so then at that point when it happens a more generic subtag should be registered, yes. I don't know when the generic subtag needs to be registered, so I am not expressing a view on that. <br><br>(In either case I personally prefer the subtag name /wiksimpl/ -- I think its meaning is clearer than /wpsimple/)<br><br>Best,<br><br>--C. E. Whitehead<br>cewcathar@hotmail.com<br>> -- <br>> John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org<br>> The first thing you learn in a lawin' family is that there ain't<br>> no definite answers to anything. --Calpurnia in To Kill A Mockingbird<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Ietf-languages mailing list<br>> Ietf-languages@alvestrand.no<br>> http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages<br></div></div>
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