I would like to add a few of the reasons hoping for a unified Serbocroatian WP:
1) The three Yugoslav languages are all mutually intelligible at
nearly 100%. Although Serbian sometimes uses Cyrillic, lossless
Cyrillic-Latin conversion can be performed.
2) To have Bosnians, Croatians, Serbians, and Montenegrins working
together in one Wikipedia will hopefully help with a better NPOV
environment, although there might be tenseness in national issues (for
example, the current sh.wiki article about the Srebrenica massacre
contains only links to the article on the 3 other WPs due to its
controversial nature and potential POV problems)
3) More people who share a common language (or "very similar
languages", if you prefer) working together can ultimately create a
larger, more detailed, and generally higher-quality encyclopaedia.
Currently, these people are divided into 3 WPs which are all excellent
already on their own.
Also note that this is not something I expect to happen soon -- maybe
a few years off.
Mark
On 09/10/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everybody,
I would like to announce that just in the last couple days the
Serbocroatian Wikipedia crossed the 1000-article mark.
It is fast growing now -- already it is nearly 1/4 the size of the
Bosnian WP, 1/10 the size of the Croatian WP, and 1/15 the size of the
Serbian WP.
It is my hope that at some point in the future, probably when sh.wiki
reaches a bigger number of articles, that these three Wikipedias can,
by a democratic vote, unite and all use sh.wiki together although it
will take a lot of work to get there.
One reason for the fast growth is that most articles are not new
material, but rather are based on the existing articles from the
Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian WPs. This means that there are nearly
30.000 articles to draw from, although there is a certain degree of
overlap.
Cheers
Mark
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