On 9/12/05, Pawe? Dembowski <fallout at lexx.eu.org> wrote:
Well, we still
wouldn't split the two, because it's still lunacy to split.
Why don't we just have a Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia then instead of
separate ones for each dialect?
Oh, but we do have that! We have BOTH a Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia (sh:)
AND separate Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ones. Which I think is a
HIGHLY undesirable situation.
For this reason I have locked the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia half a year
ago, but the pressure to unlock it got too strong, so I unlocked it
again. But only under protest. I think we should either have sh: or
sr+bs+hr:, but not both.
By the way, there is an issue with the Chinese languages there too -
if we get a separate Kantonese Wikipedia, we should not keep a Chinese
one alongside. Rather, we should make that into a Mandarin Wikipedia,
or even better, move each article to whatever language it has been
written in.
Andre Engels
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The two situations are different at all. The ZH Wikipedia is now in fact Mandarin
Wikipedia. No articles in Kantonese, Minnan, Hakka , Wuu etc. are written there. If
someone wrote in zh wikipedia an article by the language of Test-zh-yue, it will soon
be deleted or translated into Chinese to make users of zh wikipedia understand it.
ffaarr