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.