--- Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
Just to chime in, to agree to keep ZH together.
This is a topic that comes up often, and the consensus is that keeping the single, mixed simplified and traditional Chinese Wikipedia. It is the right way to go, for now, since it is so small and the critical mass is needed for its growth. Splitting it too early will splinter the efforts and in fact cause more confusion, especially when it is trying to attract newbies.
With the unavailability of ZH in the PRC right now, it is even more important to keep it intact the way it is, and not make any big moves until the community is fully involved.
Imperfect solutions for an imperfect world.
You could have category tags for each script. That way all simplified and traditional articles would be tagged as such, making it easier to one day split the two if it is deemed necessary. In the meantime there could be an advanced search function that could search within just one script or the other (or within any category for that matter). Eventually there could even be a per-category recent changes ('Related changes' from category pages does not seem to work yet - it really should). User setable language preferences for the interface would also be nice.
So there would at least be some type of differentiation (I would like to see something like that happen for Wikibooks, which is one wiki but with many languages). This may work so well that you find it is perfectly fine to stay together (it has a nice symbolic feeling to it too).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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