Le Sunday 12 September 2004 02:44, Mark Williamson a écrit :
Also, I think I should add that a split is inevitable.
If the Wikimedia Foundation chooses to not host it, those of us who believe a separate Wikipedia is nessecary will fork - not just linguistically, but the serious type of different-server-different-domainname fork entailed in for example Enciclopedia Libre (enciclopedia.us.es), wikinfo, wikiznanie.ru, etc. I'm not 100% sure but I think a similar thing happened some years ago when fr: was allowed to decide whether or not wa: was created, and eventually it was transferred to Wikimedia Foundation servers.
This is wrong. Wa: never was a fork. It was an experiment made outside the Foundation simply because it was not sure it was workable (sufficient number of editors, etc.). I think only Creole could be said to be a French dialect, and no Creole Wikipedia exists, nor any request was made for it, AFAIK.
Again here, I think you are using something you don't know to serve your purpose, and threatening rather than discussing.
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Best, Jin Junshu/Mark
Regards, Yann