Hi Elephantus!
Let me just try to answer a few of your points here:
The Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia was reopened in June
after a request from a single user of the Serbian
Wikipedia -
[[sr:User:Покрајац|Pokrajac]].
This was
not announced beforehand in any way on the three
Wikipedias that
are most affected by this issue Serbian,
Croatian and Bosnian, there was no public discussion
or
a vote. The idea was supported here by people
who weren't part of the growing communities of the
three Wikipedias.
Generally speaking, only opening all-new Wikipedias
requires public discussion, prior announcement, voting
or the like. Reopening a previously locked wiki is not
a comparable process. Locking a wiki is only a
temporary measure because of some specific reason, e.
g. vandalism and it can be upheld only as long as that
reason persists to exist. SH had been locked because
of inactivity. As soon as there were people willing to
edit it there was no alternative but to unlock it.
The "phenomenal growth" (1,019 articles) of
the
Serbo-Croatian
is mostly a result of people (some of them with
little or no
knowledge of the three languages)
copy-pasting articles from Serbian (converting those
to Latin
alphabet), Croatian or Bosnian Wikipedias.
I wasn't aware that most of the editing at SH is done
by non-native speakers. Hmm ... you have any idea were
they come from? But there is one fact that one must
admit: the Wikipedia is active now, no matter where
that activity comes from.
My question is this: Why aren't Serbian, Bosnian
and
Croatian
Wikipedias provided the same treatment as e.g.
Danish and
Bokmal (Norwegian) which are also mutually
intelligible
in the written form? There is no common Dano-Bokmal
Wikipedia with well-wishing but mostly misguided
non-native-
speakers copying articles to it.
Well, this type of comparison is always a little bold.
But I'm getting your point. I guess the main reason is
because a "Dano-Bokmal" WP was never requested by
anyone. Interestingly though, there seems to be some
kind of common Scandinavian project going on.
Serbo-Croatian has been dead as a political
collection of
standard languages for 15 years now (30 years in
Croatia),
it is slowly disappearing, except as a historical
footnote
I must admit I'm not competent to evaluate the current
situation of Serbo-Croatian and it's future is even
harder to predict. All I can see is that there seems
to be some kind of interest in it here at WP
(actually, even more than in 130 other languages).
I'd like to propose a relocking of this Wikipedia
I am well aware that the whole situation is not
perfectly ideal yet. But all things considered, I
think the current solution is a fairly just and
neutral one. There is a minority that wishes to write
in Serbo-Croatian. Even if you don't like their
standpoint, why exclude them? "Live and let live!"
or at least a
name change (Serbian - Latin, as a temporary bridge
to
the Latin conversion system now being tested for the
Serbian Wikipedia).
As a total outsider I could imagine that naming it
"Serbian-Latin" would not really be helpful because
that name makes reference to one nation and one
ethnicity exclusively. "Yugoslav(ian)" has just
crossed my mind - would that be an option?
Best regards,
Arbeo
P.S.: My congratulations for your 10,000th article at hr!
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