[Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

Wed Jun 1 07:42:49 UTC 2011

>
> *If you refer to any Brazilian native language edition of Wikipedia, may
> you specify?
> *

Milos,

There not such thing as "brazilian Wikipédia". The wikipédia he is talking
abut is pt.wikipedia.org. Why he call it "Brazilian" is better ask him.
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2011/6/1 Milos Rancic <millosh em gmail.com>

> On 06/01/2011 02:58 AM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote:
> > Now that my attention has been drawn to that section, I wonder if
> > that explains why the academic projects were not welcome and their
> > contributions are being vandalized, almost systematically, at the
> > Brazilian Wikipedia.
>
> If you refer to any Brazilian native language edition of Wikipedia, may
> you specify?
>
> If you refer to Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia, Language committee still
> doesn't allow BCP 47 language tags. We are allowing just ISO 639-1
> alpha-2 and ISO 639-3 alpha-3 language tags, which shouldn't be confused
> with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes for countries.
>
> If that's true, that means that someone has opened new project without
> following regular procedure. That's serious problem. May you, please,
> point to the project, so we could know if it is about abusing technical
> permissions or about some other, more serious issue?
>
> If that's true, I would like to thank you to pointing to very serious
> problem inside of Wikimedia. I would also like to thank you for pointing
> how harmful is not following the rules in the sense of opening new
> projects.
>
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