Last modified: 2014-02-25 06:20:42 UTC
Is it possible to rename "nds.wikipedia.org" to "nds-de.wikipedia.org", this is necessary because we would like to make "nds.wikipedia.org" a portal directing to "nds-de" and "nds- nl", since there are 2 versions of the Low Saxon Wikipedia's (with both equal status). The one (nds-nl) looks more like Dutch and the dialects used here are from the East and North part of the Netherlands. The other one, which looks more like German, uses dialects from pretty much the whole North of Germany. There has been a vote about this matter (been held for two weeks) and ends tomorrow (http://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ik_bruuk_H%C3%BClp#nds.2Fnds-nl.2Fnds-de). During these two weeks only 1 person voted, but several people from the nds-wikipedia did encourage me to request the name change as seen in the discussion above and some private conversations early last year. For more information contact one of the admins at nds.wikipedia.org: *User:Bolingbroke *User:HeikoEvermann *User:Slomox
First of all, is there an official language code for this anywhere? We've made up enough of our own already.
I've asked the commission for ISO codes a while back what the language code for Low Saxon spoken in The Netherlands or Low Saxon spoken in Germany would be, they told be the language code and the country code can be used. So nds-nl (which already exists) and nds-de (to be changed) are official codes.
Three people have voted so far and the vote has ended a (couple of) weeks ago. The result is 2 support and 1 oppose (this is because the German Wikipedia mentioned Dutch Low Saxon was seen as a Dutch dialect by linguists instead of Low Saxon, this is not true and has been deleted). If someone could rename this Wikipedia that would be great! Now a lot of people don't reach the nds-nl wiki I'm afraid :-( Thanks in advance! Servien
Is there anyone who can carry out this request? If so please let me know. And if anyone knows how to set-up the new nds domain, info and advice is welcome. The name of the nds.wikipedia.org obviously stays the same (Plattdüütsch)
I requested renaming the nds-wiki 3 months ago. I haven't really gotten an answer from anyone (not to mention any plan of action being set up). Please let us know when/if this can be done!
You'll probably have to bother Brion about it. Or maybe Tim. IRC may be the best bet (irc:// irc.freenode.org/mediawiki, nicks brion and TimStarling respectively), but e-mail may also work (you can find those by Googling, presumably). This kind of thing requires a bit of fiddling to get everything to work right, only a handful of people have the access to do it, and our procedures for dealing with such requests tend to be "it happens when someone appropriate notices it and feels he has time" at present.
(Moving all of this from the mailing list archives to Bugzilla so things actually get done and don't get list.) From Brion's list of language codes to rename: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/34563/ == Low German == nds.wikipedia.org -> nds-de.wikipedia.org nds.wikibooks.org -> nds-de.wikibooks.org nds.wikiquote.org -> nds-de.wikiquote.org nds.wiktionary.org -> nds-de.wiktionary.org https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8540 Reasoning: Disambiguation of country variants to create a portal site (nds-nl.wikipedia.org exists as well). The original request is almost 2 years old and didn't seem to have any clear consensus; is this still desired? Creating a portal site could cause difficulties with URL compatibility, and I don't really recommend making this change without clear consensus from the community there. Note that nds.wikipedia.org includes a link on the front page to nds-nl.wikipedia.org.
Hmm, seems there there was another post saying that the community was against it and there's more to it than just renaming some of those sites to nds-de: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/34563/focus=40706 It's probably best that this language code is left alone.
No community approval => closed.
