2009/12/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/12/6 WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@googlemail.com:
Aside from the possibility that London might want to be a chapter, I would have thought that organising subchapters by language would be at least as relevant as geographical ones. We have wikis for Scots and at least three celtic languages, plus perhaps Bangla and other languages? I see no reason why we can't cut this cake in several different dimensions, depending on whats relevant to the task in hand.
Chapters are supposed to be geographic in range rather than linguistic. I guess there is no reason why we can't use different rules for subchapters, though. For the most part languages follow geographic lines anyway, it's just immigrant languages that don't.
I vaguely recall that some *huge* proportion (>90%) of Bangla (I think) speakers in Britain are in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London. So geographical distribution does happen! There will be towns where immigrants from a given place will congregate.
c.f. Bradford and Birmingham as the places of origin of many "Indian" dishes.
- d.