Hi Josip,
In the future sh.wiki hopes to implement an automatic converter
between Cyrillic, Latin, Ijekavski, and Ekavski, so these
stylistic/dialect/variety issues won't be a problem anymore.
Now, with such conversion, you wouldn't have to worry about edit wars
over what norm is used, because no matter what norm it is written in,
it is displayed in the chosen norm (possibly based on IP range-- users
in Croatia and Bosnia get Ijekavian, users in Serbia get Ekavian;
users in Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro get Latin alphabet, users in
Serbia get Cyrillic, but of course you can change these preferences).
Mark
On 10/10/05, Josip Rodin <joy(a)srce.hr> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:35:12PM -0700, Mark
Williamson wrote:
Rather than letting politics blind you, why not
try to look at things
from the point of view of "What will be best for the Wikipedia in my
language?". I think that the answer to this, is a merger of these 3
Wikipedias, because it will result in a much larger workforce and much
more power and capability.
Currently, Croatian WP has just over 10000 articles, Serbian WP has
just over 14000 articles, and Bosnian WP has almost 5000 articles.
Now, imagine, if all people from all 3 Wikipedias had been working
together from the start, maybe we'd have 30000 articles in a unified
Serbocroatian WP already.
Yes, you might have 30K articles, but you also wouldn't have an
encyclopedia, because the articles would fluctuate in
language/style/whatever randomly. And as an added bonus, you'd have a
massive potential for an edit war in every single article, as people
couldn't agree on the norm used.
I myself have complained at the sh: editors already for being silly and
combining things that were never combined even during SFRY, but I'm not
particularly interested in shutting their version down. It's clutter, but
it's fairly harmless. Combining all four into one, now that would be a
particularly ghastly idea.
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