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
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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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