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