2005/10/10, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>om>:
Before you reply next time, please read the entire
e-mail.
Nobody is trying to force anything on anybody.
I said it is my hope that the 3 wikis will DEMOCRATICALLY merge.
Still, the situation is now that there are separate wikis AND a merged
one. Apparently I am not the only one who thinks that that is a
strange and unwanted situation. Either Serbocroatian has to go, or the
other three have to go (after moving the articles of course), in my
opinion. The democratical thing seems to be to not merge - there seem
to be more people interested in the Serbian and Croatian Wikipedias
than in the Serbocroatian one.
That means that if there is a vote, and the majority
of Croatians
votes against it, then of course Croatian WP won't merge.
That's nice, but what will this mean for the Serbocroatian Wikipedia?
Will it mean that it will remain as it is, will it be put out of
existence or will it become the serbocroatian-except-croatian
wikipedia?
But the vast rest of my e-mail you didn't reply
to, namely the parts
about that you're fooling yourself when you say that you speak a
different language from the Serbians, and that it is harmful to
Wikipedia because it limits possible number of articles. This is just
a suggestion, I don't want to force anything on anyone, but I really
think that everybody would be better off here with a single WP where
all standards is converted and/or accepted.
I don't know how much different the languages/dialects are. I do know
that from both sides people are moving towards separate languages. If
we consider languages to be variations with at least a given amount of
difference, they are indeed dialects of the same language. But if we
consider languages to be dialects with a special formal status,
they're different languages.
If, as seems to be the case, the users themselves prefer to go
separate ways, there is not much gained by having an extra Wikipedia
where you may write in both forms.
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