Recently someone Menchi (?) discussed with Brion about

making separate wikis for Simple Chinese and Traditional Chinese, and I fully support this view.

Continuing with the tradition of Wikpeidas innovation and originality, I think it would be good idea to go one further, and make a strictly Han Ideographic (Chinese) language wikipedia.

The idea comes from the problems inherent to Chinese --What began as purely ideographic -- symbol=thing/concept/connectors -- has also "degraded" to include characters for which nobody knows their origins, charachters that used to invoke a *phonetic distinction between words. In more recent years, bopomofo, pinyi, (chinese) and romaji , katakana, hiragana (japanese) have all developed to supplant or augment the highly complex pictographic forms and their more complicated usage.

It would then be extremely interesting to create a purely ideographic (using simplified characters) Han wikipedia -- that is usable by Chinese, Japanese and Korean wikipedians, and would be easier for non-asian users to get involved with and understand.

Sincerely, -Steve Vertigo

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