On Thu, February 3, 2005 5:55 am, Sj said:
I like this idea. 3 good articles and 20 good stubs, with a translated main page, should be sufficient interest to start a new language/dialect, or at least to provide content on which to base arguments about why the new project should not start.
I would put such new content on Meta, with pages like meta.wikimedia.org/New-lang/yue/Main Page meta.wikimedia.org/New-lang/pinyin/Zhongguo
I don't have anything personal against nomenclature like zh-min-nan, zh-yue-han, etc; particularly if that allows us to use some third-party group's decisions on nomenclature; but the above short names should at least identify the proposed new wikipedia unambiguously.
Thank you, and some other people for supporting this idea. Considering suggestions of page location, I have just set up the testing ground at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/Test-WP/zh-yue
These are my reasons: 1. I prefer to call it "Test" since that should invoke the least objection. 2. I prefer to make it systematic so that other controversal proposals may use the same method, so I should include "WP" for Wikipedia proposals. 3. "zh-yue" should most likely be the domain of the Wikipedia if it gets approval. It is unlikely to have more than one versions of Cantonese in near future. 4. Somehow ":" had unexpected redirection effect, so I used "Test-WP".
I hope that supporters of Cantonese can start adding some test articles under this structure: http://meta.wikimedia.org/Test-WP/zh-yue/Article
Let's see what happens.
Felix Wan