2009/9/9 Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com:
2009/9/9 Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima heldergeovane@gmail.com:
So, I would like to know if there is currently any feature which could help us to avoid the problem of having a divided community of users ('pt' x 'pt-br') "fighting" with each other ad infinitum... (and to avoid proposals like that [1] of a new "Brazilian Wikipedia", which IMHO will not have any good result, and is not the better way of solving the problem...)
No. We already offer users the choice between having the interface in pt or pt-br (or any other language, really), but such a choice doesn't exist for the content.
This is a community issue. Having a single pt:wp is a win because there's more content in one place and it avoids local-POV bias, same as there's one en:wp rather than US-English and Commonwealth-English.
So you need a community rule.
The rule we have on en:wp is:
1. It doesn't matter. 2. Use the variant spoken in the location, if relevant. 3. Don't change articles from one to the other except per 2. 4. Try not to worry too much about it.
4. is the important step ;-) It should be simple enough to let new users know the rule and "not to worry about which variant" :-)
- d.