Am Mittwoch, 24. Mai 2006 03:37 schrieb Filip Maljkovic:
And that's all there is. We're all interested in sharing knowledge, but not the projects. People just don't wanna cooperate and you just can't force them. I think ongoing flame/revert wars at English Wikipedia speak for themselves.
Well. Random Wikipedians coming from Serbia and Croatia or some other former yugoslav republic and flaming against each other is no surprise but the people that are active members in Wikimedia chapters should be way more resonable.
As Wikipedia is a mutilingual open minded community it would be just very anachronistic not working together across borders. And additionally there is no real language barrier for example between Serbs and Croats. For example the Serbian and Croatian language are much more similar than the various German dialects (that have in fact a large variety).
So what does speak against a shared Wikimedia chapter in that region apart barriers in mind and maybe some legal problems with establishing a multinational chapter (I am sure there is a way how to solve it)?
So I want to say: Open mind does not start with being open minded towards people that live in nations several thousands kilometers away but with being open minded towards the direct neighbours.
Why not creating a Wikimedia chapter that is a community asociation of croatian, serbian, serbo-croatian ... Wikipedias and which is thus trying to care about all of them?
Arnomane