I see Irish, but what about Scots Gaelic? --Dweir
- If you feel the need to start such a page the ISO 639-1 code for Scots Gaelic is gd Eclecticology
Shouldn't this be using the 3-letter codes rather than 2-letter codes for the languages?
- A look at the list will show that at this stage of things very few of the existing languages with two letter codes have Wikipedias started. The three letter codes are helpful when you have a large number of languages, and necessary if that number goes over 676. At the risk of seeming like a big language chauvinist, the languages which would require the use of three letter codes tend to have a very small number of literate native speakers. The critical mass of population needed to make a Wikipedia functional in those languages just isn't there. If the moving forces behind this project are pleasantly pleased enough to find a situation where the use of the three letter codes would be unavoidable, I'm confident that they would make the necessary accomodations. Eclecticology
Hey, how about a Toki Pona wikipedia? I'm sure Damian Yerrick would help run it... --Chuck Smith
- Not for at least a few weeks, but perhaps once the language settles out. Heck, Christian Richard is about to change the words for 'it' and 'they'. Besides, what would be the two- or three-letter code for such a constructed pidgin? And with numerals of length O(n), how are we supposed to do year in review? --Damian Yerrick
- Oh, that's an easy one: just give each year a name. Brion VIBBER, Friday, May 17, 2002
- I asked Christian about the whole thing, and he responded: "crazy! / an encyclopedia is very unTP / TP is about modesty / not about hording millions of entries of knowledge" --Damian Yerrick
- Oh, that's an easy one: just give each year a name. Brion VIBBER, Friday, May 17, 2002
02/06/2002 In the list Complete list of non-English Wikipedias available is the entry Belorussian language - Belorussian language wiki: be . So the Language Code is be
But if you look at the list of codes http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm you see be is the code of the Breton language. Belorussian is not on this list. So what now ? giskart
- The correct 2-letter code for Breton is
br, the above list is wrong. If you want a Breton wikipedia, ask Jimbo to set one up. Brion VIBBER
- Thanks. I have lookt again at the list and now i see the is not compleet wrong. Under the list "ISO 639: 3-letter codes" there is second list "ISO 639: 2-letter codes". On that list BR is for Breton. But for BE the speak about "Byelorussian" and not "Belorussian". I have lookt it up in the Britancia [1] and the are the same. According that articel also "White Russian" is a English name for the same language. I have never heard about "Belorussian" but i have about "White Russian". I think that name is more logical. Now i am not thinking about starting a wikipedia in that language. It is just somthing i find strange. giskart
- Belorussian, Belorusian, Byelorussian, Bielorussian, White Russian etc are all the same thing, from varying transcriptions of the name of Belorus (literally "White Russia") in Belorusian or Russian. See Belorusian language. Brion VIBBER
Shouldn't wikipedias that have not been started be moved to the new software? I mean, there is nothing to change so it seems to me, right now would be the best time to do something like that since there is no content and It'd be easier to start them in the new software rather than in the old and then convert them....
Lightning 22:58 Oct 13, 2002 (UTC)
- Yes, but volunteer labor is scarce and setting up a few dozen wikis that aren't being used and will have to be converted again the next time we make a major software change isn't my idea of fun at the moment either. Any language that you want to use, mention it and I'll move it over. Anything else will wait until it's gotten around to. --Brion 23:03 Oct 13, 2002 (UTC)
There is updated list for iso-639 at Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langcodes.html --Goran Dec 5, 2002
If I wish to start a page a wikipedia in Pennsylvania German is it impossible because that language is not listed?dutch
- Pennsylvania Dutch doesn't have its own unique language code (it falls under the generic 3-letter code 'gem' for Germanic languages), but if you really want one, I could set up a wiki under the full code, say "gem-US-pennsylvania.wikipedia.org". (eek!) Or maybe something shorter. :) --Brion 19:50 Feb 2, 2003 (UTC)
- If you could set it up it would be appreciated, I don't know how dificult it would be though. It's not only spoken in US but in Canada also so I don't know about the -US- part :)
I would like to create a wikipedia in Low Saxon, which is spoken by more than 1 million people but is not listed with a code in iso-639. Would it be possible to set up a Low Saxon version?
- Why does Volapuk have a code and can have its own version when there are like 30 people who speak it and things like Low Saxon and Pennsylvania German don't have codes and can't have a Wikipedia? Doesn't make sense to me.