On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:31:09 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
So this means you believe a Cantonese Wikipedia will have no users and will not be sustainable?
You're sure changing your tune fast. A minute ago, it was "My pet project will lose resources!!!", but when you saw that didn't go over too well with anybody you change it to "I feel deeply for these people, and my primary concern is that they'll be lonely and I think their minds are being controlled by Mark."
As usual, wild exaggerations by Mark. Please find a quote or a pointer to anything I've said that resembles "My pet project will lose resources!!!" It's getting tired.
If I recall correctly, zh.wikipedia's history does not involve having the interface translated and a critical mass of people and articles /before/ the creation of the subdomain, and even when articles started to be created this was hardly true at first.
I think it was a pretty safe bet that the language of 1 billion speakers would be started sooner than later. Also, zh: was started in October 2002 by Mountain who drove the development of Unicode support in Wikipedia. So this is beyond critical mass - it was leadership in the whole WP project.
And just because you have relatives who speak five Chinese dialects doesn't mean you can't be a linguistic imperialist.
<groan>
Stalin, the master of linguistic imperialism, came from a Georgian-speaking family.
You're on the verge of realizing Godwin's Law.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)