Language Subtag Registration

[Michael Everson]

On 28 Oct 2015, at 15:59, David Starner <prosfilaes at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I object to "this will lead to…".

I made this registration on behalf of Amir Aharoni who raised it on the Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee list. (I am also a member of that committee.)

> I've seen no evidence of any use of this language registry on Wikimedia. 

See http://be-tarask.wikipedia.org

> I believe there's one case of a Wikipedia with an ISO 639 tag sitting on the wrong ISO 639 tag and the issue being considered important enough to justify the change.

Yes, for instance als.wikipedia.org (which should be for Tosk Albanian) is being changed to gsw.wikipedia.org (for Swiss German).

"This will lead to en-wpsimple.wikipedia.org” is what they want to do with simple.wikipedia.org because they want to follow standards better than they have in the past.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/