[Wikipedia-l] Why do we have them??

[David Gerard]

Mark Williamson (node.ue at gmail.com) [050625 12:22]:

> I have a question: why do we have separate Wikipedias for Malay and Indonesian?
> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differences_between_Malay_and_Indonesian
> , "The differences between Malay (Bahasa Melayu) and Indonesian
> (Bahasa Indonesia) are comparable to the those between British English
> and American English."
> If this is the case, then why does our policy on English differ so
> sharply than our policy with Malay/Indonesian?


Probably the same reason we have separate wikis for Bosian, Serbian and
Croatian. And for Romanian and Moldovan.


- d.