It seems now, given the size of sr.wiki, that a merger of the three South Slavic Wikipedias is unlikely.
However, it's certainly very feasible: all articles from all three would be moved to a new database, with the exception of articles with the same titles (even if one title was Cyrillic and the other was Latin). Those articles with coinciding titles would be sorted through by hand to make a single new article based on the older two (or three), including all information from them.
Disputes regarding history, culture, language, etc. of the former Yugoslavia would be very carefully monitored by a group of 6, two Croats, two Bosnians, and two Serbs, who would be elected by their compatriots. Their job would be to make final rulings on all such issues. If they could not arrive at a consensus (with at least 4 of the delegates, at least one from each pair, agreeing with one another), predetermined observers from other Wikipedias could be brought in to cast tie-breaking votes.
The reason for such a dispute resolution process is that currently there are more Serbian Wikipedians by far, and Bosniaks and Croats might reject a union of Wikipedias out of fear that a slight Serbian slant would prevail.
Mark
On 11/09/05, James D. Forrester james@jdforrester.org wrote:
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Paweł Dembowski wrote:
Well, we still wouldn't split the two, because it's still lunacy to split.
Why don't we just have a Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia then instead of separate ones for each dialect?
Hysterical raisins.
IOW: we made the wrong choice when setting both up. Let not the sins of the past bind us in eternity.
Yours sincerely,
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