Aromanian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromanian) is a Romanian language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language) dialect.
A new Wikipedia is requested for this language on the Romanian Wikipedia (http://ro.wikipedia.org) by Aromanians who don't know where else to turn. Romanian wikipedians have "offered" temporary demo space for the Aromanian Wikipedia main page at http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prota_padzin%C3%A2
As far as rigid official ethnography language codes are concerned, all I was able to find regarding Aromanian was ISO 639-2, along with a "SIL" language code, as described in http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RUP
On the other hand, UTF-8 should be more than ok for this language as far as technical concerns go.
Please let me know if there are any other concerns or problems regarding the creation of this new Wikipedia, and I'll be glad to clarify them. The ideal URL for the new Wikipedia would be http://ars.wikipedia.org, but any alternate suggestions are welcome.
Also, if there are any problems with or concerns against creating this Wikipedia, please do let me know so I can explain the respective issues to (and clarify them with) the Aromanian users on the Romanian Wikipedia.
Thank you for your time, [[w:user:Gutza]]
Kaixo!
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:52:54AM +0300, Bogdan Stancescu wrote:
Aromanian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromanian) is a Romanian language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language) dialect.
A new Wikipedia is requested for this language on the Romanian Wikipedia (http://ro.wikipedia.org) by Aromanians who don't know where else to turn.
Can't the "moldavian" wikipedia ( http://mo.wikipedia.org/ ) be used temporarly? (of course the domain name should be changed, but as it is currently unused it may be a good idea to use it temporarly instead of the romanian one, particularly in the case where some article names may overlap, and for all the technical (Wikipedia:) namespace, by using temporarly an unused (and probably one that will never be used anyway) wikipedia the only constraint will be to keep a warning text on the main page; all the other pages could freely be modified and adapted at will without fear of any conflict.
And then, switching to a "real" Aromanian wikipedia would involve only a change in the DNS, no need to move/copy articles around.
On the other hand, UTF-8 should be more than ok for this language as far as technical concerns go.
UTF-8 should be the default for any new wikipedia; not using UTF-8 would be a mistake, which will lead to problems (like it is the case in the English wikipedia)
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