[Mageia-discuss] IRC community channels - need a ruling from the board

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2010/10/4 Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com>:
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> The ISO country codes were devised for such situations. The recognized
> German language code is now "ger" as seen by the ISO Country code charts.

Thanks for this lecture, it's the first time I even hear/read about
those 3-letter codes. In all the years of internet usage, in web,
usenet, mail I never came across this. Whenever somebody referred to
Germany and the language German it was "de". You never stop
learning...

So we should change all the URLs for the language-specific pages like
mageia.org/de into mageia.org/ger (and all other languages) same with
the IRC channels, unless the channels are country-related. I wonder
whether the users of such pages and channels know this. I don't think
that anybody in Germany would search for "ger"...

How would you suggest to solve this?