On 9/5/05, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote:
I found our policy with regards to Chinese languages stranger and stranger. We do not do this if we open another Germanic or Romanic language pedia!
It's not policy. There is no policy for creating new languages (just a draft one at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_policy_for_wikis_in_new_languages). I was just giving my opinion, and I feel that the relevant communities should be told about any language proposals, not only Sinetic ones. If some dialect of English were proposed, it would be very unfair to try to hide that from the existing English language communities within Wikimedia.
Angela.