The country field on the Drupal.org profile lists Zaire, which hasn't been the name of that country since 1997. It's now called Democratic Republic of Congo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire

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Should we use the long form or some abbreviation?

We also should then update the value in the database for those who chose Zaire.

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There are two nations called Congo:

Republic of the Congo (a.k.a. Congo-Brazzaville)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (a.k.a. Congo-Kinshasa)

This nominal association of the two nations with their capitals, I don't know if it's an appropriate way to name them on Drupal.org.

Wikipedia says:

In order to distinguish it from the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is often referred to as DR Congo, DROC, DRC, or RDC (from its French abbreviation), or is called Congo-Kinshasa after the capital of Kinshasa (in contrast to Congo-Brazzaville for its neighbour).

and

The Republic of the Congo (French: République du Congo; Kongo: Repubilika ya Kongo; Lingala: Republiki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, Little Congo, or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly known as Zaire), the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda, and the Gulf of Guinea.

I don't want to provide the definitive word on this, but I think "Congo-Brazzaville" and "Congo-Kinshasa" may be acceptable. It also has the advantage of placing them next to each other in an alphabetical list.

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There is another issue report for Vietnam that in the countries list is reported as Viet nam (which has been reported to not be the correct form from a Vietnamese user); maybe it would be created a unique report.

The major problem is updating the user profiles, as changing the list entries would cause some users to not have a country associated.

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Sorry for the noise: I just want to follow this issue. The title made me giggle.

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Title: Country "Zaire" has been "Democratic Republic of the Congo" since 1997 » Change "Zaire" profile field to "Congo-*"

I'm happy to write and execute queries to fix things like this. If we're switching from one country to two countries, though, we can't do that :( Maybe the best solution is to create the two new countries and leave the old one there to allow people to self-select into the right place.

Can we get some sort of definitive answer on the right thing to do here from someone who lives in the area?

Also, it seems most of those folks are spammers anyway.

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Zaire only needs to be changed to Democratic Republic of Congo. Right now, there's also a country in the profile named "Congo" which refers to the Republic of Congo.

Democratic Republic of Congo often goes by an abbreviated name "Congo-Kinshasa," but it is not official. It would also only make sense to change the name to Congo-Kinchasa if you also changed "Congo" to "Congo-Brazzaville."

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Title: Change "Zaire" profile field to "Congo-*" » Change "Zaire" profile field to "Congo-Kinshasa" and "Congo" to "Congo-Brazzaville"

Thanks for the explanation. How about this new title?

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Democratic Republic of Congo often goes by an abbreviated name "Congo-Kinshasa," but it is not official.

The official name of Italy is Repubblica italiana (Italian Republic), but it is not used in any country lists. Do you mean that Congo-Kinshasa should not be used in a list of countries?

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I think the names should be changed as the current title (changed by greggles in #7). I hear these countries referred to by acronyms (DRC, DR Congo) and by full official names but the most common is by reference to the capital city. I hear it on the media, it's referred to in Wikipedia, and it's how people refer to the countries in day-to-day business.

Come to think of it, I remember seeing it on signs for phone calling stores and money changers in Francophone countries, which both Congo republics are. I'm very confident this is the right change.

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There's also the point you made earlier:

It also has the advantage of placing them next to each other in an alphabetical list.

Let's leave it around for a bit longer to see if anyone has any feedback and then I think we can go for it.

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I came across these comments today. based on:

"It also has the advantage of placing them next to each other in an alphabetical list."

I can understand if you adopt Congo-Kinshasa and Congo-Brazzaville for both countries. But originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), I would say that it is referred to as DRC, which has a French version of RDC (Republique Democratique du Congo)

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You could install Countries API with #1115064: Add auto-update

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@bangpound (or anyone else) could you write the queries for this?

I could review and run them and make the manual admin changes.

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Status: Needs review » Closed (won't fix)

Closing old issues. Please re-open if needed.

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Status: Closed (won't fix) » Active

This still needs to be addressed.

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I agree with @newbies in #11 that

- Zaire should be renamed to DR Congo (Using plain DRC might not mean a lot to people outside the region)
- Congo should be renamed to Congo-Brazzaville

This would reflect how both Congolese people call their respective countries. It would be great if someone indeed could write these queries. (for D6, just in time for the upgrade)

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I was just looking at #1068840: core/includes/standard.inc contains inaccurate country data

We should probably just standardize on includes/standard.inc and fix two birds with one patch.

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Project: Drupal.org site moderators » Drupal.org infrastructure
Component: Textual improvements » Other
Assigned: Unassigned » drumm
Issue tags: +Needs deployment

batje and I got together here at DrupalCon and tried to rename as follows on dev server.

the following needs to be changed:

1) edit

https://www.drupal.org/admin/config/people/profile/edit/17

1) remove Zaire
2) add "DR of the Congo" in the alphabetical order
3) remove "Congo"
4) add "Republic of the Congo" in the alphabetical order

run the following queries.

update profile_value set value = 'Republic of the Congo' where fid = 17 and value = 'Congo';

update profile_value set value = 'DR of the Congo' where fid = 17 and value = 'Zaire';

this addresses the immediate problem, anything more fancy can be done later.

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Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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Issue tags: -Needs deployment