Hoi,
It is tragic to learn that the two Wikipedias cannot find it in themselves
to cooperate. The two projects did not merge because at the time the
position was taken that the standard orthography was not accepted. It would
be really cool if a sense of sanity and friendship would prevail and have
the two projects merge..
My question remains; what could an expert do more ?? In the end it is about
what we accept in our projects and we do allow for this sad situation to
persist
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/1/12 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)gmail.com>
2009/1/12 Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>:
We only accept one Wikipedia for one language.
The fact that we still
have
what is called the
be-tarask.wikipedia.org is
only because people were
of
the opinion that we should retain the work that
was done. Now I wonder
what
more experts could add to this.
I am not an *expert* in Belarusian, but i know a little more about
this language than the average Russian speaker does.
Both projects are OK. Both have several dedicated and caring people
working on them. Both have certain problems. But their biggest problem
is shared: the duplication of effort hurts them all.
Merging them will benefit Wikipedia as a whole and its Belarusian
edition in particular and there should be free choice of orthography,
as it is in the Wikipedias in English, Portuguese and Catalan.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni
heb:
http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng:
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
cat:
http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus:
http://amire80.livejournal.com
"We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
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