[Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikipedia in European Portuguese

[James Hare]

Yes, dialect forks are just a waste of space, bandwidth and time, unless the
dialects vary greatly (such as Cantonese and Mandarin).

On 7/3/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
>
> James Hare wrote:
>
> >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?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> As a fluent portuguese speaker, I have no idea why a vote of this nature
> must be restricted to only those who come from a certain country or
> continent.  I am, however, opposed to this idea, as well as the earlier
> Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia proposal that also failed.  To me this
> sounds like somebody trying to establish rules that would make his pet
> project work, when there is strong opposition to the idea.  I'll put
> more of my thoughts on the new language poll page to keep down bandwidth.
>
> --
> Robert Scott Horning
>
>
>
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