Delirium wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
Bosniaks should have all projects in their own standard language because it is better to have three small projects where people would want to work then one when people would not want to work. In this moment.
This is debatable. Having 3 projects separated on ethnic/nationalist/political lines is just about the worst possible alternative, IMO, worse even than having no projects, since I cannot see how such a project could ever possibly be a legitimate Wikipedia project with a neutral point of view.
This turn of events justifies my continued opposition to separate language domains for Wikisource. (Mark, the discussion is about Wikisource, not Wikipedia.) What you say about Wikipedia, however, holds even more strongly for Wikisource. Wikisource contains mostly old documents. These were written as they were written by the original published author. NPOV cannot apply to their content; it can only apply to added explanatory text.
Since the Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian languages are mutually intelligible it makes sense that the literature in each of these languages be easily available to all. Branko Radievi, Ksaver andor Gjalski and Anton Medved all wrote in different dialects. Is it not an advantage to be able to see them as unifying forces rather than tools for petty nationalism?
I absolutely do not support this kind of nationalistic fragmentation. I say this not just about the Yugoslav languages, but also about Indonesian/Malay and all the others that have been mentioned in this way. While there may be practical difficulties to attaining this in Wikipedia this is far from the case in Wikisource.
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