On 11/14/06, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
The decision to start Wikimedia Foundation projects are based on languages not on countries. You use as an argument that people are working on a project using MediaWiki. I hope they enjoy themselves doing this. The point where it starts to make sense to ask for a new project is when it is clear that Montenegrin is a different language or when it is clear that there are other reasons like a difference in script that may make for a sufficient difference that a new project is warranted. When you mistake this for a political reason, you are sadly mistaken.
Starting on the incubator does not a languages make.
- 100.000 of inhabitants of Montenegro claim chat their native language is Montenegrin. - They don't want to work on Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias. - It is reasonable not to wait ISO to formalize Montenegrin language and not to wait to incorporate those people in Wikimedian projects. They have the same rights like others. ("Bosnian Wikipedia is made because it would be unfair to have Serbian and Croatian Wikipedias and not Bosnian." -- I think that Andre Engels said so.) - Their Wiki project (http://wikii.itam.ws/index.php/Glavna_stranica) indents to be an encyclopedia, not POV fork. (I am sure that their Wiki(pedia) will have POV pages, but this is usual not only to small Wikipedias.)
Maybe we could make "virtual Mongenegrin Wikipedia" based on conversion engine on Serbian Wikipedia (also, Montenegrin Wikipedia should have the same Cyrillic/Latin conversion engine), but we didn't finish Ekavian/Iyekavian engine. (Or, optionally, we can still work on it, but then we need a help.)
And about vandals: The group of vandals are the same group which is indefintely blocked on Serbian Wikipedia and which makes to us a lot of problems.