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From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Subject: Re:
To: Mohsen Salek <mohsensalek(a)gmail.com>
Hoi,
You will have noticed that even though for all intends and purposes a
project like Wikinews is to be applauded for the Farsi community, I have not
changed the status of the proposal to "eligible". The problem I have is that
the fa code is ambiguous and I have informed my fellow members of the
language committee that as far as I am concerned the code for a new project
in Farsi should be "pes". The reason for this is that fa or fas has been
made a macro language, this macro language includes Dari or "prs".
Now in the language committee there are some who disagree with me. I told
them that I will not change projects administratively unless the codes used
are unambiguous. As I am not the only member of the language committee,
those members who disagree with me could have changed the status..
So the situation is:
- I am in full support of a Farsi Wikinews project
- There is a situation with the code used for Farsi
I am interested to learn what you think of this impasse.
NB Farsi is not the only language that has this problem..
Thanks,
GerardM
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Mohsen Salek <mohsensalek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
hi Gerard
i am mardetanha <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mardetanha> also you
may know me from meta.
As matter of fact i want you to check my request here
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_Persian>
.
I have talked to community and we are ready to have our wikinews .
Thanks in advance
mohsen