For more information, visit the ISO Store. Discover them all. Popular standards. Internationally recognized codes for the representation of more than languages or language families, with ISO This ISO standard can be applied across many types of organization and situations. ISO language codes list. ISO — Country Codes Avoid confusion when referring to countries and their subdivisions with this standard. Since there is no ambiguity, there's no need to provide alternates.
From IETF language tag article. So I do not believe this is a problem anymore. Using two letter code when both two and three letter versions exist has been the standard for years. It would be inconsistent to not follow that practice. The latest BCP 47, i. BCP 47 provides strong stability guarantees, which are intended to avoid the need for mass data migration, such as moving en. See section 3. That is one of the reasons why BCP 47 is an appropriate standard to use for Wikimedia subdomains, an application where instability would cause a great deal of disruption.
The ISO standard is being developed currently. Since ISO and its base, Ethnologue, though being the best that we currently have, has nontheless a lot of errors, omissions, and various glitches, with ISO an extended list of all languages, dialects, and language varieties is being worked on.
It differentiates between written and spoken language varieties in many instances. It can also be expected to add several thousand dialectal varieties missing from ISO today. It is known to be using four letter abbreviations once it is out, since obviously three-letter abbreviations keeping the existing ones would not provide a sufficient number of codes.
We can expect ISO to be integrated into BCP 47 in the usual way - by simply adding to the already existig code sets. From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki. I don't think that it would be a good idea to move big language wikis like enwiki to a new name. Remember, we are one of the most visited sites in the world and such a major change would need a major discussion. It's like saying: You are small, you get the longer URL, everybody will see that you are not in the group of the big languages.
Wikipedia is young and there is no need to repeat the mistake of using ISO Fallback rule is nice, but it is easier if one does not need the rule at all, because one only uses 'one' code system and not 'two' like RFC.
That does not mean not to allow aliases. Of course the old 2-letter codes can still be used, but should maybe get the status of depriciated, like we know it from HTML tags. We should allow every outsider to enter wikipedia by 3-letter code. I agree whit Brion. Please do not force existing Wikipedia's to use a different language code. Giskart 7 May UTC. If so in which direction? Thoughts on language integration proposes that language codes be put as part of the URL path and not the domain name:.
Personally, i feel this would create a lot less confusion over country codes.
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