Ihar Hrachyshka schreef:
У Чцв, 29/03/2007 у 14:12 +0200, GerardM піша:
Hoi, Wikipedia is not a platform to fight political fights. When, what was the Belarus Wikipedia, decided that the orthography as used in Belarus was not to be used, it lost its right to call itself be.wikipedia.org. This problem became acute when there was an incubator project for the official language.
The language committee was asked how to deal with it. We found that there is little or no chance to get this "orthography" recognised by the current ISO-639 standard. The standard allows for a private label; we selected an arbitrary label. From my personal point of view, there should be no be-x-old wikipedia in the first place; I would see it moved outside of the Wikimedia Foundation.
There is no chance of having both a be and a bel wikipedia because these codes refer to the same language. Where you say "hear the Belarusians" you made the concious choice not to hear those Belarusians that write the official Belarus orthography. This truth has come home to roost.
I know that those who write now the official orthography are against such a solve of the problem. I am one of admins of new Bel-Wiki and we didn't want to ban be-x-old. We wanted to start a new project with other language politics. That's it. So, if this can't be reverted (though all the Belarusian Wikipedians from both sides support such revertion) then - what can our community do to stay be-x-old project - even in other domain - apart with current be.wp.org?
Hoi, There should be only one Belarus wikipedia. If anything, you should work together. If you can find it in yourself, you can think of the difference being comparable to the difference between American, British, Australian etc English and just allow for the difference.
If you want anything good to come out of it, you have to work together. This is the best way because it will also ensure that you will have an NPOV. The differences of opinion that are there because of the obvious political differences will need to be worked out as a consequence as well. The only reason why you get the be.wikipedia is because it is the official orthography. It is not because any of the inherent points of view are endorsed.
Thanks, GerardM