This is a very interesting suggestion and the recognition that it is important to remove tensions is very commendable.
Unfortunately I haven't heard of any plans for Cyrillic to be adopted to write Portuguese. Now consider that Latin characters were use by 200 million people and Cyrillic by 20 million. If you were someone who reads and writes in Cyrillic, would you like to use an encyclopedia where you might find 10 articles written with Latin characters for each one written in Cyrillic? Wouldn't you say there might be trend for both Cyrillic readers and writers to abandon that encyclopedia? Would you consider that a desirable outcome?
Suppose, furthermore, that the 20 million Cyrillic readers and writers can also read and write in Latin characters, but the opposite is not true. That is, the 200 million readers and writers who use Latin characters have a lot of trouble reading and/or writing in Cyrillic. Would you foresee a long life for Cyrillic articles? Would you consider that a desirable outcome?
Fortunately we don't have Cyrillic, but you might have started to get the picture, because the 200 and 20 million are real numbers.
Sincerely,
Virgilio A. P. Machado
At 04:53 23-03-2010, you wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt wikimedia.lestaty@gmail.com wrote:
Yep, if you start a article in one version, this article must be continued in that version, but this is not a problem for the community (in the past yes, now no).
At sr.wp we use the same rule in relation to writing articles in Cyrillic or Latin, Ekavian or Iyekavian, and even for transcription of foreign names or not. That rule removed a lot of tensions.
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