[tz] Regarding Wikipedia entry

[Paul.Koning at dell.com]

It looks like there is some automated machinery that generates that page from the tzdata release, and that machinery makes ISO 3361-1 links rather than ISO 3361-2 links.  3361-1 seems correct since that lists country codes, while 3361-2 is for subdivision codes.  zone.tab has country codes there.

If it's really desirable to change this, the answer is to track down the machinery that does the work and change it.  I can't tell where that is; the page doesn't say, nor is that information in the page source as far as I can tell.

	paul


> On Nov 7, 2017, at 4:27 AM, Jens Tröger <jens.troeger at light-speed.de> wrote:
> 
> Thanks!  That is odd though, because the source of the wiki page has the
> following comment:
> 
> *******************************
> NOTE TO EDITORS: This table shows the information from the source documents. Please send any corrections to the tz mailing list (<tz at iana.org>) rather than editing here. Notes can be made in the last (Notes) column for any non-link row (i.e. where that column is empty). Any other changes may get lost the next time the table is updated from the IANA source.  When updating from tz, it will be necessary to retain the disambiguations in the 3rd column wikilinks, and the lack of wikilinking on some of them, since some of the non-standard legacy zone names are either redlinks or link to the wrong articles otherwise.
> *******************************
> 
> Cheers,
> Jens
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 12:37:38AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
>> On Nov 7, 2017, at 12:10 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Jens Tröger wrote:
>>>> This is regarding the following table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#List
>>>> I believe that the links in the first column CC are incorrect: they link to [[ISO_3166-1:CI|CI]] (link to the country) instead of [[ISO_3166-2:CI|CI]] (link to the timezone page) That applies to _all_ entries in the first column.
>>> 
>>> This mailing list isn't connected to Wikipedia, so it's not the best place to report bugs there. I believe you can correct the Wikipedia page yourself, by clicking on the "Edit" tab.
>> 
>> Yes:
>> 
>> 	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold
>> 
>>> Or you can report the bug by pressing the "New section" tab here:
>>> 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_tz_database_time_zones
>> 
>> Of the two actions (fix or report), the first is preferable.
>> 
> 
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> Jens Tröger
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