I don't know how to reply to the list thread but I really like Mark's idea about splitting zh.wikipedia.org into zh-cn.wikipedia.org and zh-tw.wikipedia.org. This would really solve the problem of navigation conflicts. I wasn't suggesting this for political reasons but for practical reasons since the writing scripts conflict with each other.
Whoever is able to split the portal into 2 categories, please do so.
Thanks! - Ian
----- Mark's comment: Interlanguage links are already done with [[zh-tw:]] and [[zh-cn:]], so perhaps we could simply split zh.wikipedia.org into zh-cn.wikipedia.org and zh-tw.wikipedia.org, with zh.wikipedia.org being a disambiguating portal? Of course, this is more up to Chinese-speakers than it is to myself; just a suggestion that would be consistent with our current usage. Having separate interlanguage links going to one encyclopedia that is effectively written in a mixture of two writing systems that are often not mutually intelligible is more than a little bit odd.
-Mark
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Please, no. We've discussed this in several places recently, but:
1) The ZH community has kept it consolidated to keep critical mass together 2) Doing so will make a future technical solution easier to implement 3) It's not a good time anyway, since the ZH accessibility is in flux from the PRC
-Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado)
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:48:29 +0000, Ian Mackinnon ianm2000uk@hotmail.com wrote:
I don't know how to reply to the list thread but I really like Mark's idea about splitting zh.wikipedia.org into zh-cn.wikipedia.org and zh-tw.wikipedia.org. This would really solve the problem of navigation conflicts. I wasn't suggesting this for political reasons but for practical reasons since the writing scripts conflict with each other.
Whoever is able to split the portal into 2 categories, please do so.
Thanks!
- Ian
Mark's comment: Interlanguage links are already done with [[zh-tw:]] and [[zh-cn:]], so perhaps we could simply split zh.wikipedia.org into zh-cn.wikipedia.org and zh-tw.wikipedia.org, with zh.wikipedia.org being a disambiguating portal? Of course, this is more up to Chinese-speakers than it is to myself; just a suggestion that would be consistent with our current usage. Having separate interlanguage links going to one encyclopedia that is effectively written in a mixture of two writing systems that are often not mutually intelligible is more than a little bit odd.
-Mark
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