As I noted before, it is a dialect continuum.
Stellingwarfs and Middel-pommersch are surely not mutually intelligible, but Grunnegers and Oostfreesk very well should be.
You are foolishly dividing Platt by nations. This is illogical. If we had an Oostfreesk Wikipedia, Grunnegers-speakers would surely understand it and vice-versa, even though Grunnegers is in the Netherlands and Oostfreesk is mostly in Germany.
The problem of dialect continuum is a very difficult one.
HOWEVER, given the community reaction to a request for a Baseldytsch Wikipedia, I think the same is logical for a request for a "Dutch Low Saxon" Wikipedia -- your language may be different to whatever degree than what many people on X Wikipedia use, but there is no rule forbidding its use. There is no rule against writing pages and pages and pages of content on nds.wiki in Stellingwarfs or Achterhooks. When I suggested doing this, I got a cold response that Dutch Low Saxon and German Low Saxon aren't mutually intelligible. Before whinging to us about that, can you at least actually try to use your dialect on nds.wiki to prove to us that it really doesn't work?
Mark
On 25/06/05, Servien Ilaino nl2b@europe.com wrote:
Hi there,
I'd like to request for a Wikipedia in Dutch-Low Saxon (±1.8 million speakers). There is currently a Low Saxon one but 95% of it is in German-Low Saxon and quite ununderstandable for Dutch-Low Saxon speakers.
We already have the minimum number of interested persons who will work on the Dutch-Low Saxon Wikipedia encyclopedia. (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Dutch-Low_Saxon)
Thanks in advance.
Servien Ilaino (I'm just new here)
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