[Wikipedia-l] zh.wikipedia.org - having a single unified portal

OK, as I was editing around in zh.wikipedia.org and having talked to some people, I've come to realize that it's in the best interest of the China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc communities to share one portal as it's important to share knowledge and views with each other to better understand each other. Just as China itself is wide and varied in culture and customs, the simplified script unifies the nation. Also, from what I've been told, some people are currently working on some kind of conversion tool that will enable the automatic interchangeable conversion between Simplified vs Traditional script. Because of this I have decided to stop or try to engage as little as possible in updating articles as until the implementation of the conversion tool is in effect on zh.wikipedia.org I was also told not to create seperate articles in Traditional chinese as two versions of the same article is not in the interest of the community, but rather having one version of an article that can be accessed and edited by anyone in either Simplified or Traditional script. The conversion tool will then do the work to display the script on the end user's screen according to their preference of either script. In response to: ---------- Message: 8 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:07:48 +0800 From: Andrew Lih <andrew.lih(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] zh-tw.wikipedia.org To: wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org Message-ID: <2ed171fb04061804075dfddfa2(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Please, no. We've discussed this in several places recently, but: 1) The ZH community has kept it consolidated to keep critical mass together 2) Doing so will make a future technical solution easier to implement 3) It's not a good time anyway, since the ZH accessibility is in flux from the PRC -Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:48:29 +0000, Ian Mackinnon <ianm2000uk(a)hotmail.com> wrote: _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger