A lot more people live in Brazil than in Portugal, so i don't think that
this "overrunning" is hostile or even intentional - it's simply natural.
The TV in Portugal shows a lot of Brazilian telenovelas. If those
telenovelas aren't translated when shown on Portuguese TV, then a separate
Wikipedia is probably not needed - I've been learning Portuguese for two
years now, mostly with a European teacher and a little with a Brazilian one,
and my impression was that the difference in speaking is considerably bigger
than in writing. People who know Portuguese better than i do are welcome to
correct me.
The policy about the different dialects in pt.wikipedia is nearly the same
as in en.wikipedia.
I don't think that complete and perfect automatic on-the-fly conversion
between European and Brazilian is possible, but yet again - if en.wikipedia
survives very well without it, then pt.wikipedia can, too.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:06, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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From: Manuel Coutinho <info(a)maccoutinho.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:28 AM
Subject: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia
To: node.ue(a)gmail.com
Dear Node,
It has come to my attention quite some time ago that the Portuguese version
of wikipedia is being overrun with articles written in Brazilian
Portuguese,
some of which I have corrected myself but the problem has, long since grown
out of control.
I'm writting to suggest the creation of a new version of wikipedia in
Portuguese from Portugal, in an attempt to provide Portuguese users with
articles written in their correct version of the dialect.
I don't know why this hasn't been already implemented since the language
options on the control panel when you create a new wikipedia user create
that distinction already.
I hope that you take this under consideration and provide me with the
guidelines to start this project.
I'm sure that i will be able to find supporters that are willing to start
the process of translating already existing articles as well as creating
new
ones.
Thank you very much.
Yours trully,
Manuel A. C. Coutinho
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