The Wawa language of Cameroon has as its ISO-639 code "www" and, this poses a problem; when you type www.wikipedia.org, you go to the portal. A functional URL for Wawa would be www.www.wikipedia.org.
This is quite cumbersome and this has been recognised as one of those corner cases that pose a problem. As we have someone from SIL on the language committee, the request for a Wawa Wikipedia came to the attention of Melinda Lyon. She has now proposed to change the code for Wawa to "wwx".
Thanks,
GerardM
2 comments:
Sure, you should make an exception for Wawa. In such cases, keeping up with ISO is dumb, say whatever.
I also noticed Wawa, and I had sent a mail to SIL about this matter.
And also, there is no request for a Wawa Wikipedia, but there is one for Wawa Wikisource:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikisource_Wawa
And who is Melinda Lyon? Is she someone from SIL?
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