Sorry, this is unacceptable.
The ch: subdomain for both Wikipedia and Wikinews is reserved for the Chamorro language of Guam. You may think it's a bit obscure, but it's their national language and it has a few hundred thousand speakers.
Currently, the policy (as far as I know) is to have no separate Wikipedias or Wikinewses for different countries, only for different languages (thus, since Mexico and Spain both speak Spanish, there will be a Spanish version but no Mexican or Spain-ish version).
If you are interested in a separate Wikipedia for Swiss German (as people seemed to be doing at ch.wikipedia until recently, this is not allowed), there is already the Allemannic Wikipedia which has some Swiss users already I believe, but it seeks to integrate content from all Allemannic varieties (thus including not only Swiss varieties but Austrian, Liechtensteinian, Alsatian, etc).
There already exists a separate portal for Switzerland, with links to the different Swiss Wikipedias (ie Deutsch, Français, Italiano, and Rumantsch Grischun).
Mark
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:11:06 +0100, michael rueetschli m.rueetschli@gmail.com wrote:
Hy @ all
As first, sorry my bad english... my preferred languages are German and French.
I'm interested to start
details on ch.wikipedia.org: Switzerland is especially: The national languages are German, French, Italian, and Romansh and this by only 7 millions habitants. There's already a Page for swiss users: http://wikimedia.org/ch-portal/ but i think that's a bad seller. I have further plans with respectable and multilingual content for Switzerland.
details on ch.wikinews.org: same motivation like ch.wikipedia.org and Switzerland has a strong economy with a lot's of interesting news. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union. And so, we have other interestes than germany. and so on.
Are there also Plans like this? Can i help? If there no plans i will to start first with wikipedia.ch and secondly wikinews.ch. Are someone interesstet to help?
best regards Michael Rueetschli business data processing specialist Switzerland _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l