Hoi,
As previously stated, we do not make any decision about what is a language and what is not. The source making all such decisions for us is ISO 639-3. We simply import their standard.
Currently they do not classify Valencian as an independent language, so we cannot open a wikipedia in that language. If you feel that ISO is in error you should open a request for an ISO code for Valencian.
It's not very easy, yet if you have strong scientific arguments to back your request they may well consider it.
Berto 'd Sera Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Carlos Navarro Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 4:12 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] About creating a new language on Wikipedia
Of course it's an stupidity making a new Wikipedia for a same language. But at this moment, it's a fact that Valencian is not Catalonian, but there is a lot of people saying that Valencian is the same as Catalonian. We, the true valencian people (people who born in Valencia and has a huge legacy of valencian parents), don't accept this term, because we know our real history. We know facts such as when Joanot Martorell (a historic valencian writer) wrote Tirant Lo Blanch many centuries ago, he said that he wrotes the novel into "the beautiful and rich valencian language". Examples like that, we have a lot. Is about those facts because we want to make our own Wikipedia.
Regards,
Carlos.
2007/7/12, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
On 05/07/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
When you ask for help for starting "your own" Wikipedia, it has to be understood what the language context is. When people say our language is different, it does not automatically follow that their assessment is accepted for instance, there are differences between the many flavours
of
Spanish, English, Portuguese and we do not consider the difference
enough
reason to start another Wikipedia project for flavours of those
languages.
And it's important to keep in mind: the reason we have 200+ Wikipedias is only mutual incomprehensibility, so as to serve the readers. There are occasional stupidities like having four Wikipedias for Serbo-Croatian, but they remain examples of how not to do it rather than reasons to perpetuate unnecessary multiplication of Wikipedias.
- d.
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