Austin Hair wrote:
As for that, some time ago I noticed that we have Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, and Serbo-Croatian wikis. I'm sure this topic must have been debated somewhere, but nobody I've asked has been able to illuminate me as to the rationale for this decision. Can anyone here?
I do not know the rationale, either. I think it is something that we should discuss.
One of the obvious goals of wikipedia, big picture, is to promote intelligent discourse in the interest of world harmony. We should be very careful, of course, to respect that if there are significant language differences that require separate wikis, then separate wikis are required.
But we should be very skeptical of proposed splits that might be driven more by political/ethnic trouble, etc.
I would love to learn more about the current situation, and to reach out to these wikipedia communities to find out if they would like to change things.
--Jimbo