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