[Wikipedia-l] Why do we have them??

Hi all, I have a question: why do we have separate Wikipedias for Malay and Indonesian? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differences_between_Malay_and_Indonesian , "The differences between Malay (Bahasa Melayu) and Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) are comparable to the those between British English and American English." If this is the case, then why does our policy on English differ so sharply than our policy with Malay/Indonesian? Don't people realise that we're dividing labour? If they had col-laborated on a single Wikipedia from the very beginning, the Malay/Indonesian Wikipedia would probably have at least 15k articles by now. Mark -- SI HOC LEGERE SCIS NIMIVM ERVDITIONIS HABES QVANTVM MATERIAE MATERIETVR MARMOTA MONAX SI MARMOTA MONAX MATERIAM POSSIT MATERIARI ESTNE VOLVMEN IN TOGA AN SOLVM TIBI LIBET ME VIDERE