Hoi!
Depending on how deep you want to go in the subject you can use this simplified picture: http://eng.i-iter.org/you-don-t-let-baby-out-incubator-until-you-are-sure-he -she-can-survive
or you can give me more detailed questions. It's a long and interesting story for a linguist :) From a strictly linguistic POV we simply solved what can be defined as a long "trademark war". Nothing else within this issue falls under our competence.
From a "community POV" AFAIK the two communities *might* now quit their war
and unite to defend the right of be-x-old to exist (which I would personally welcome if the atmosphere was that of a peaceful coexistence). The Byelorussian language is quite in bad shape and needs all the help it can get; wars do not help it, that's for sure.
Berto 'd Sera Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Gray Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 5:34 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] New language
On 27/03/07, Berto 'd Sera albertoserra@ukr.net wrote:
This is a bit pessimistic :) The normative Byelorussian wikipedia just was created and substituted the old version, the latter was renamed into be-x-old.
Is there any chance you could summarise the byelorussian issue for those of us who haven't been following it? I've got a query about it and I don't know where to start looking for details...