--- Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In short, there are two options:
- to make Montenegrin Wikipedia; or
- to make a conversion engine from Serbian, Croatian
or Bosnian to
Montenegrin variant.
In this issue (which is related to political
linguistics) the main
problem are preferences. From Southren Serbia to
Istria all people
will perfectly understand each other if they are
talking in their own
standards (in general, Croatian standard is a little
bit more distant
then others). But, not so small amount of
preferences makes
differences between standard languages. Plus, very
good knowledge of
one standard means that you may talk with others,
but doesn't mean
that you may write in other standard (even I have a
good Slavistic
bacground, I have a lot of problems to write in
Croatian standard).
And everyone has right to:
- call her/his language as (s)he wants;
- to be educated in her/his native language.
And Wikipedia is about those rights.
If this is about preferences how is different than all
the variations of English spoken in the world? Each
variation has it's own standards etc. And en.WP works
quite well settling out which variety would be used
for each article. It is a bad idea to unnecessarily
divide reasources. Do you not understand how
difficult it is to keep ontop of the basic
adminstrative tasks in a small wiki? I think there
needs to strong definitive reasons for creating a
subdomain. If it is questionable don't create it.
Birgitte SB
Birgitte SB
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