Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikipedia in European Portuguese

Yes, dialect forks are just a waste of space, bandwidth and time, unless the dialects vary greatly (such as Cantonese and Mandarin). On 7/3/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning(a)netzero.net> wrote: > James Hare wrote: > > >> The only reason why I can see two different Portuguese wikis is because >> > the > >> two (majority) versions -- European Portuguese and Brazillian Portuguese >> > -- > >> are very different. Are they? >> >> On 7/2/06, Luiz Augusto <lugusto(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Sorry for my English. Recently, a newbie from Portuguese Wikipedia has >>> proposed on meta a vote to create Wikipedia in european portuguese. He >>> don't >>> talked about it with any editor from pt:Wikipedia and that proposal has >>> discovered by me, accidentally. I send a note in Village Pump from >>> pt:wikipedia. More than 30 editors has voted against that proposal. >>> Unconsoled with this, he was suspended that voting and is imposing to, >>> > in > >>> a >>> new vote about it, only europeans speakers can vote on it. >>> >>> Is all ok to the current rules for request a new language? >>> >>> >>> >>> > As a fluent portuguese speaker, I have no idea why a vote of this nature > must be restricted to only those who come from a certain country or > continent. I am, however, opposed to this idea, as well as the earlier > Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia proposal that also failed. To me this > sounds like somebody trying to establish rules that would make his pet > project work, when there is strong opposition to the idea. I'll put > more of my thoughts on the new language poll page to keep down bandwidth. > > -- > Robert Scott Horning >