[Wikipedia-l] New request for Cantonese Wikipedia: vote at 29-6

[Mark Williamson]

Hi Ffarr,

It's nice to see you've subscribed to Wikipedia-l.

Although it's a little bit off-topic, I'd like to ask you what you
think of the Traditional-Simplified conversion system in its current
form.

Obviously, it's not perfect, but do you find it satisfactory? Or do
you think it has a long way to go still before it can be accepted?

Mark

On 12/09/05, Far <ffaarr at seed.net.tw> wrote:
> On 9/12/05, Pawe? Dembowski <fallout at lexx.eu.org> wrote:
> > > Well, we still wouldn't split the two, because it's still lunacy to split.
> >
> > Why don't we just have a Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia then instead of
> > separate ones for each dialect?
> 
> Oh, but we do have that! We have BOTH a Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia (sh:)
> AND separate Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ones. Which I think is a
> HIGHLY undesirable situation.
> 
> For this reason I have locked the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia half a year
> ago, but the pressure to unlock it got too strong, so I unlocked it
> again. But only under protest. I think we should either have sh: or
> sr+bs+hr:, but not both.
> 
> By the way, there is an issue with the Chinese languages there too -
> if we get a separate Kantonese Wikipedia, we should not keep a Chinese
> one alongside. Rather, we should make that into a Mandarin Wikipedia,
> or even better, move each article to whatever language it has been
> written in.
> 
> Andre Engels
> 
> 
> -----
> The two situations are different at all.  The  ZH Wikipedia is now  in fact Mandarin Wikipedia. No  articles in Kantonese, Minnan, Hakka , Wuu etc.   are written there. If someone  wrote   in zh wikipedia an article by the  language of Test-zh-yue, it will soon be deleted or translated into Chinese to make users of  zh wikipedia understand it.
> 
> ffaarr
> 
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