Hello Berto,
BdS> Since you can read other people's minds you shouldn't need to make BdS> questions. Simply concentrate and read my thoughts, will you? :)
Sorry, I haven't still studied it :-)
why the official orthography is the only allowed in this Wikipedia?
BdS> We stated that whenever a normative version of ANY language is available, BdS> that version is to be preferred in the user interface.
Well, let leave user interface, but is it possible to use another orthography in the articles? Now it is forbidden and they refer to some hazy Wikimedia disicion, as Foundation would forbid it.
If, for example, de.wiki admins would forbid the usage of de-1901 in de.wiki as a non-official variant, will it be ok?
Why in the free encyclopedia one must not write in the language variant, let it be non-official now, which is in use, in which books and newspapers were and are printed now? Who gave to the current admins of be.wiki such rights to forbid any use of non-official orthography?
BdS> As per content orthography, all editions are free to set their own policies, BdS> so far. We ALL pushed since the very start to have the two communities merge BdS> into one, (read the old messages if in doubt), yet we cannot force anyone BdS> into anything.
BdS> So far the two communities prefer having two separate editions. Why? Read BdS> THEIR minds to get an answer :)
The main problem is the smaller project be.wiki doesn't want to unite with the bigger be-x-old.wiki. But, probably you remember, first they were allowed to separate in a different project long ago. But the community which use Taraskievica orthography was strongly against it, and now the people from be-x-old.wiki would like to unite again into one project, but only the supporters of the official orthography are against it.
Regards, Jaska Zedlik