[Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikipedia in European Portuguese

[James Hare]

The only reason why I can see two different Portuguese wikis is because the
two (majority) versions -- European Portuguese and Brazillian Portuguese --
are very different. Are they?

On 7/2/06, Luiz Augusto <lugusto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry for my English. Recently, a newbie from Portuguese Wikipedia has
> proposed on meta a vote to create Wikipedia in european portuguese. He
> don't
> talked about it with any editor from pt:Wikipedia and that proposal has
> discovered by me, accidentally. I send a note in Village Pump from
> pt:wikipedia. More than 30 editors has voted against that proposal.
> Unconsoled with this, he was suspended that voting and is imposing to, in
> a
> new vote about it, only europeans speakers can vote on it.
>
> Is all ok to the current rules for request a new language?
>
> Links related to this:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_new_languages&diff=384871&oldid=384837
>
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_new_languages#Discussion_of_the_poll_concerning_the_creation_of_an_European_Portuguese_Wikipedia
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Tugazo
> http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Contributions/Tugazo
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