Not to start up another argument (I remember the last ones), but this sounds like the same thing betweek Bokmal and Nynorsk.
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Williamson Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 10:23 PM To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Why do we have them??
Hi all, I have a question: why do we have separate Wikipedias for Malay and Indonesian?
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differences_between_Malay_and_Indonesian , "The differences between Malay (Bahasa Melayu) and Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) are comparable to the those between British English and American English."
If this is the case, then why does our policy on English differ so sharply than our policy with Malay/Indonesian?
Don't people realise that we're dividing labour? If they had col-laborated on a single Wikipedia from the very beginning, the Malay/Indonesian Wikipedia would probably have at least 15k articles by now.
Mark