Yes, we should not repeat the mistake of creating three Wikipedias in essentially the same content language (hr / bs / sh). It's desirable to merge these Wikipedias, and theoretically it's even possible, but practically, it probably won't happen soon.

(Comment 1: As I mentioned in another email, I do think that Cyrillic Serbian should be separate, *given the current state of the language converter software*, which is quite good at showing different scripts to the readers, but doesn't allow storing different scripts in the database, which creates inconvenience for editors. Ideally, it should be possible to *edit* in whatever script that is convenient to the editor, but it will require a lot of work.)

(Comment 2: All varieties should be allowed as different *user interface* languages, but it's a separate question anyway.)

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‫בתאריך יום ג׳, 11 בינו׳ 2022 ב-10:20 מאת ‪Antony Green‬‏ <‪toniogreen@web.de‬‏>:‬

I agree that Serbo-Croatian Wikivoyage is technically eligible, and as far as I can tell there is no Wikivoyage project in Bosnian, Croatian, or Serbian for a potential Serbo-Croatian Wikivoyage to compete with. Would be outside our jurisdiction to say "If we create a Serbo-Croatian Wikivoyage, there won't be Wikivoyages in any of the languages included under the Serbo-Croatian umbrella"?

Antony

Am 2022-01-11 um 06:51 schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
The problem will be that we open a can of worms when we go this route. Arguably there is no such language as Croatian and Serbian became separate languages.. The question would be who is its public.

Thanks,

Gerard

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 05:18, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com> wrote:

A user has asked about starting a new project (namely Wikivoyage) in the Serbo-Croatian language. I see no problems with the eligibility of such a project, does anyone?

(One would have to wonder about the ISO code, as it's ISO 639-3 hbs; but we already have Wikipedia and Wiktionary under "sh" as a deprecated code in 639-1, but that's a different issue).

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