Re: Language Subtag Registration

Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org> Wed, 28 October 2015 23:07 UTC

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From: Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org>
To: David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Language Subtag Registration
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 07:59:17PM +0000, David Starner wrote:
>                                      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.

  I suppose you mean als.wikipedia.org for Alemannic German, that uses
[als] allocated in ISO 639-3 for Tosk Albanian (a member of the Albanian
[sqi] macrolanguage), but I don't know the Wikimedia community's stance
on that.

	Arthur