[Wikipedia-l] Policy draft: Wikimedia projects are not the place for national constitution

Tue Nov 14 17:53:15 UTC 2006

Gerard,

There is an ISO code because that standard was made by engineers and
it has no ethnologue code because that list of languages is made by
linguists.

This Wikipedia was first edited by Node_ue in December 2004, who added
the first words in Cyrillic. In these two years, it produced zero
original articles, but it had 8000 edits and endless discussions on
en.wiki, meta and the mailing lists.

I ask you: there is another Wikipedia with such a record?

Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 2:18:06 AM, Gerard wrote:

> For your information.
> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=mol shows quite clearly
> that under both ISO-639-1/2/3 there is a code for Moldavian. To 
> complicate this
> http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mol 
> does nor agree with this sentiment. So nobody gets it right, not even
> the organisation that maintains ISO-639-3.

> We have had our fill with this nonsense too often. Mark is correct where
> he says that the language is not the country. The Dutch language is just
> one example where the name does not imply that everyone who speaks Dutch
> as his or her mother tongue is Dutch. Bogdan your argument does not 
> wash. When you mention trolling, I wonder when you looked last in a 
> mirror. Anyway the best you can do is ignore. That may be kinda hard but
> consider, if this project stinks, anyone knowledgeable will be able to
> sniff it out personally. Then again, roses grow best on dung.