Andre, the situation with Cantonese is a very different one.
None of the articles at zhwiki -- none of them, even though there are over 20.000 -- are written in Cantonese.
The vast majority of people looking for a "Chinese Wikipedia" will be looking for the existing Wikipedia in the Mandarin-based written vernacular. Some may be surprised or excited at the existance of a Cantonese Wikipedia and go there instead, but given the numbers I don't think it would be reasonable to force the current Chinese Wikipedia to move.
Mark
On 12/09/05, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/12/05, Paweł Dembowski fallout@lexx.eu.org wrote:
Well, we still wouldn't split the two, because it's still lunacy to split.
Why don't we just have a Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia then instead of separate ones for each dialect?
Oh, but we do have that! We have BOTH a Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia (sh:) AND separate Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ones. Which I think is a HIGHLY undesirable situation.
For this reason I have locked the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia half a year ago, but the pressure to unlock it got too strong, so I unlocked it again. But only under protest. I think we should either have sh: or sr+bs+hr:, but not both.
By the way, there is an issue with the Chinese languages there too - if we get a separate Kantonese Wikipedia, we should not keep a Chinese one alongside. Rather, we should make that into a Mandarin Wikipedia, or even better, move each article to whatever language it has been written in.
Andre Engels
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