Austin Hair wrote:
As for that, some time ago I noticed that we have
Bosnian, Serbian,
Croatian, and Serbo-Croatian wikis. I'm sure this topic must have been
debated somewhere, but nobody I've asked has been able to illuminate me
as to the rationale for this decision. Can anyone here?
I do not know the rationale, either. I think it is something that we
should discuss.
One of the obvious goals of wikipedia, big picture, is to promote
intelligent discourse in the interest of world harmony. We should be
very careful, of course, to respect that if there are significant
language differences that require separate wikis, then separate wikis
are required.
But we should be very skeptical of proposed splits that might be
driven more by political/ethnic trouble, etc.
I would love to learn more about the current situation, and to reach
out to these wikipedia communities to find out if they would like to
change things.
IIRC there was no big discussion about it. It was the one thing what
the people on all sides there wanted, and they got it, That's the part
of the world that gave us the term "balkanization". If the issue were
to come up now we might try harder to keep them together. It is
interesting to note that the last substantive edit on the Serbo-Croation
wiki on June 27 was at "Anarhizam" :-)
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