Milos Rancic wrote:
On 1/8/06, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
So it appears that there is no valid reason to have separate wikis for each country that was formerly part of Yugoslavia. One Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia will do, IMO.
Until we would have a good implementation of software, separate Wikipedias are needed. Serbo-Croatian is, again, offensive term to 90% of inhabitants of Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
Perhaps patience is required at least until the software is working. My impression from the Yugoslave diaspora is that Serbo-Croatian is a preferred term if it saves them from having to identify themselves with one or another of the factions. That or they will use the vague phrase, "my language".
That Serbian, Croation, and Bosnian are separate languages appears to be a politically-convenient fiction that wants to enforce differences that don't really exist. That can only tend to enforce component-nation-specific POVs and thus violate NPOV (as would having separate Wikipedais for Simplified and Traditional Chinese).
POV is present on English Wikipedia, too. There are no chance to add free about USA foreign politics on English Wikipedia. For example, there are a number of articles named as "incidents" even US soldiers were killing a lot of civilians. Pushing POV is very usual on Wikipedia.
I'm sure that these problems are constant irritations in every project with more than one contributor.
Ec