Wikimedia already has a longstanding preference not to split Wikipedias into separate ones for each dialect, as much as possible.
As you say. AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. That is, we will try our best to have a self translating system, if that is not possible because of local political extremism we will be left with two chances: 1) impose our will over ro.wiki with pure strength 2) have 2 separate wikies
Berto 'd Sera Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Delirium Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:59 AM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Conspicuous only in its absence (was Moldavian)
Berto 'd Sera wrote:
Hi!
First of all, the WMF does *not* want to have any content in the Moldovan dialect (Romanian as *spoken* in the historic region of Moldavia, which would currently comprise Eastern part of Romania and Moldova with Transnistria included).
Right the opposite. ANY encyclopedic content in an ISO recognized entity
(thus including the Moldovan Linguistic Entity) is desirable. It's about the planet, not about you and your country, in case you ain't clear with it.
Therefore nobody would support splitting the English Wikipedia into American-English and British-English and Australian-English Wikipedias, and similarly a *lot* of effort was put into keeping the Chinese Wikipedia from splitting into Simplified and Traditional Chinese Wikipedias, and efforts to split off a Cantonese Wikipedia have also been consistently opposed.
-Mark
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