Mark Williamson schrieb:
I went back to the real thing, the encyclopedia in my language - which is nor Bavarian, neither Münchnerisch although I am from this region and city but german, a language almost everybody in Germany speaks and is able to understand (except he's maybe turkish or serbian or arabic). There's still a lot of work to do even if some newspapers rate us already as better than brockhaus.
So, you think that we should close down the Alemannisch and Platt WPs because all of those people speak Hochdeutsch? What about the Catalan, Basque, Galician, Asturian, and Aragonese WPs? Don't those people speak Spanish, French, or Portuguese as well? What about Occitan, Breton, Corsican, Walloon? Can't they speak French? Or Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Welsh, and Cornish? Can't they speak English?
Just this point: I think what Elian wanted to say is that we should have a real clear policy for the creation of new language WPs - NOW. But this policy would not collide with language/dialect WPs already existing: those editions of WP will not be closed down. The idea is to prevent WP becoming a project to keep endangered languages "alive". We are (or better we want to be) a project trying to set up an encyclopedia everyone can access and understand and nothing else. We have to stop stupid creating of new Wikipedias which will surely never be filled enough to be accepted as encyclopedias. Acting like this only comsumes power of many people which would better be concentrated on more important things in our all day Wikipedia life...
This is how I understood Elian's message and - as well - my own opinion.
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