Neil Harris said:
Here's the nice, counter-intuitive consequence to this proposal: it provides an incentive to alternative-Chinese-language proponents to add content to the mainstream-Chinese Wikipedia, and recruit more people to do so, so that it will grow as rapidly as possible. When the 50,000 target is reached, it is probable that many of these new editors will start to concentrate on their own local language versions; however, many of them will, I imagine, also continue to work on the main Chinese Wikipedia, and there will be a major incentive for content to flow in translation between the different Chinese Wikipedias. So it's a win-win proposal.
That one's worthy of Machiavelli himself. The man's a genius!