Switzerland, yes; Denmark, no. Yes, Faroese and Greenlandic are "regional languages" of the Kingdom of Denmark, but they are spoken only by tiny percentages of the population.
Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroes also have their own domain names -- using YOUR logic, Greenlandic should only be at www.wikipedia.gl, Icelandic at www.wikipedia.is, and Faroese at www.wikipedia.fo
And yet, the people tending to the portal cared enough to protect those minorities by including them. Despite the fact that the Greenlandic Wikipedia only has about a dozen articles, and each of them has their own domain name.
Sámi doesn't have it's own domain though...
And yes, wikipedia.fi should be a portal. But who pays for it? Not the Foundation.
I think that if the FOundation pays for your domain, you should have a portal for ALL of the langauges of Sweden. If you pay for it yourself though, it's up to you.
Mark
On 19/01/06, Andreas Vilén andreas.vilen@gmail.com wrote:
The difference is that Switzerland and Denmark have several common languages for different geographical locations (as well as Finland as I have pointed out... Why aren't www.wikipedia.fi or www.wikipedia.co.uk portals?) To force www.wikipedia.se to be a portal to Swedish and then all the minority languages of Sweden is just absurd.
/Andreas
On 1/19/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think they would if you had it redirect to the Swedish Wikipedia. Wikipedia is for languages, not countries.
Please see, for example, http://www.wikipedia.ch or http://www.wikipedia.dk or http://wikimedia.co.uk
Mark
On 18/01/06, Andreas Vilén andreas.vilen@gmail.com wrote:
This is taking NPOV to the extreme... 99% of all people living in Sweden except to get to a site in Swedish when they go to a website with the ending .se, probably most Swedish Finns would go to www.wikipedia.se (and surely not sv.wikipedia.org) if they wanted to find Wikipedia in Swedish, not www.wikipedia.fi. But as I have said numerous times, this is another discussion.
The question is: "Is it possible to get Wikimedia to pay for the domain name www.wikipedia.se?"
/Andreas On 1/18/06, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
"Andreas Vilén" andreas.vilen@gmail.com wrote in message news:cb099c010601180538p372b1ef3q1d762142d2ab1196@mail.gmail.com... [snip]
All top domains I search for are redirects to their country's primary language, I don't see why www.wikipedia.se shouldn't. In fact, since wikipedia.fi is, that would be pure discrimination. Especially since Swedish is far more widespread in Finland than Finnish is in Sweden.
Maybe they should therefore be updated to provide proper portal facilities...unless there's a chapter in that country in which case surely they ought to be doing something with "their site"? -- Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
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