Re: Registration requests: akuapem, asante

Why would we wish for more content on Wikipedia? en.wikipedia requires
citation and not original research? wouldn't a better resource to consult
be sriptsource.org which allows for original research?

- Hugh Paterson III

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Michael Everson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I agree. I don’t think the prefix “ak” should be added, and I approve
> these subtags.
>
> I wish that there were more actual information about African languages on
> the Wikipedia.
>
> Michael
>
> > On 22 May 2017, at 16:58, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On May 18 I wrote:
> >
> >> Is it already the case that Twi is tagged inconsistently as either
> >> 'tw' or 'ak'?
> >
> > Hearing no response, I offer this suggestion:
> >
> > The purpose of BCP 47 is to provide identifiers for language content,
> > based when possible on ISO standard code elements.
> >
> > ISO 639 has coded Twi [tw, twi] separately from Akan [ak, aka].
> >
> > Irrespective of the fact that "Twi" is actually a name for two of the
> > three major dialects of Akan (the two for which Sascha has proposed
> > variant subtags), I believe it would be destabilizing for BCP 47 to
> > encourage users to tag Twi content as "ak" or "ak-anything" instead of
> > using "tw".
> >
> > Therefore, I suggest (to the Reviewer in particular) that Sascha's
> > proposals be approved as is, without adding "Prefix: ak" to either.
> >
> > --
> > Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
> >
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