On Dec 26, 2004, at 1:26 AM, Mark Williamson wrote:
You are saying that we will be able to mark linguistic patterns. I also gave other objections in that message, did you read any of them?
Marking linguistic patterns has been tried before. It takes a lot of effort and doesn't produce satisfactory results. And I believe the word is "dialectal".
Why have one Wikipedia and write two sentences separately tagged in the same article? That makes no sense. It's more trouble for everybody.
Lot's of sensible things make no sense to you Mark, so I am not surprised.
More trouble? Less trouble than forking. And less trouble for readers who will be presented with information which is consistent in spelling and diction to their dialect.
And it is the readers who would find this the most useful, since it would make wikis with as large an editor base as possible.