On 5/25/06, Austin Hair adhair@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/25/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
… but in any event all of the people commenting, including me, I think we all agree that it should be left up to those local communities to figure out what makes the most sense for them.
I believe this is documented (somewhere) as Wikimedia policy, but even if not, it's the undisputed consensus of those involved with such decisions. It's certainly not for us to object if the Serbs get together with the Croat community and decide to form a broader organization, or if individual Bosnians simply want to join the Serbian chapter (which they can, even now).
Just in case this wasn't clear (and I was just told it wasn't), I still think the whole thing is an insanely bad idea, for reasons I cover elsewhere in this thread. I'll continue to do everything I can to personally discourage it, but as a matter of policy it's not our place to make demands either way.
Austin