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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