For the moment I thought that it was not you there...
Mark, please, please, please stop to help us. And, please, stop to talk to other people what is the best for us.
Bosniaks should have all projects in their own standard language because it is better to have three small projects where people would want to work then one when people would not want to work. In this moment.
I am sick of your colonialist behaviour. If you really want to help us, please find some programmer who would help us to make MW extensions faster and/or find some mediator who wants to work on relations between our communities.
On 10/28/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sending this because I noticed a request for a Bosnian Wikisource:
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Language_domain_requests#bs.wikisource...
Now, Jimmy Wales said IIRC that it was due to ignorance and that it was a mistake that we had separate Wikipedias for these so-called languages.
For this reason, it strikes me as counterproductive to start up a new project in Bosnian.
Yês, there are already Wikisource subdomains for Croatian and Serbian, which in itself strikes me as unfortunate and counterproductive, but I think that it would be even more counterproductive to promote such a farce of forced separation of what could be fantastic combined efforts when there is a clear path to stop the nonsense without hurting the status quo -- with Wikisource, there is no Bosnian version yet, and Croatian and Serbian versions are small, compared to Wikipedias.
Just as Angela said with regards to Simple English projects (Wikiquotes and Wikibooks), a source is a source. Since Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian are 99.9999999% mutually intelligible, it seems nonsensical to me to separate Wikisources, given that Wikisource isn't even supposed to have original content.
Now, for all the people out there who would like to tell me that Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian are really separate languages, that's obviously nonsense.
The best explanation seems to be that it's a single language, called different names by different people.
After all, how else is it possible that people who a decade ago spoke "Serbo-Croatian" now speak a different language? The answer is, it isn't. They still speak the same language, they just call it different things.
Mark
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