Timwi wrote:
You keep using the word "work". This suggests to me people don't want to have to *write* articles in Latin script. Perhaps you could clarify this. By any chance, do you mean that the community of Wikipedians on the Serbian Wikipedia don't want Latin-script articles on sr at all?
The question is complex and some of them will say "I don't want to work because it needs too much of time" (which is not true, of course), and some of them will be clear and say "I don't want Latin script at all". In both cases, they do not want Latin script at all!
Ray Saintonge wrote:
This is puzzling. If nobody wants a Latin alphabet version than why are we even bothering with this conversation?
If a significant minority wants to have a Latin version, then a majority vote against that should not be an excuse for restricting the rights of the minority. It appears that the technical means are available that will allow the two versions to co-exist in one project.
In this moment we have voting result 4:2 against usage of Latin script (and without any chance for change of result) with clear xenophobic message: Cyrillic script is the only Serbian script! (In real life, we have 50-50 usage of Cyrillic and Latin script; and Latin script is not used only by "significant minority"; it is very significant minority...)
I didn't ask for another Serbian project because I had not looked into another solutions. Usage of scripts is very hard political question in Serbia and I would like not to translate that political war into Wikipedia. I was thinking and thinking and secondary Serbian project (as I described) seems like the most reasonable. Yes, it may looks like wasting of resources; but, believe me, consequences are:
1) If we say that sr: has to have Latin script pages against the decision of majority on sr: we would have: a) Wikipedia will be marked as "anti-Serb" institution (English Wikipedia has mark because of wars about pages about Kosovo etc.); b) I will not have community support anymore because I did something against the will of majority.
2) If we make sp: as alternate project, it will be treated only as my caprice without any really bad consequence to other things.