Wikipedia editions refer to languages, not countries, and you know that. If for example Scandinavia whould have been a united country for half a century, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish would most probably have been considered variants of one language. Language is politics.
/Andreas
On 3/7/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Of course. But what do you think the chances are that Romanians will allow it on "their" Wikipedia?
Many Romanians (and many Moldovans as well) regard Cyrillic as a symbol of communism or Russian imperialism, and if an automatic converter was added to the Romanian Wikipedia, I think it would get negative attention in romania, and some WP'ans might actually leave over it.
Mark
On 07/03/06, Servien Ilaino servien@gmail.com wrote:
If the only difference is that it's written in Cyrillic then you can use some kind of program for that.
Serv
2006/3/7, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com:
I'm not sure all of those questions are relevant. Most of them are publicly-accessible information anyhow. I will answer those that aren't.
- How old are you?
- Where do you live?
- Where were you brought up?
- How many languages do you claim to speak?
I don't "claim to speak" any languages. I know a number of languages to widely varying degrees -- for example, I can say a few things in Okinawan, I can understand Spanish to a degree, and I can make myself understood in Japanese. Whether I "speak" a language or not depends on what you mean -- what level of fluency?
- How did you learn those languages?
How does anyone learn any language? By hearing it/reading it, and speaking it/writing it.
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