[Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikipedia in European Portuguese

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Cantonese and Mandarin are BOTH languages according to ISO-639-3.
Thanks,
    GerardM


James Hare wrote:
> 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:
>>
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>>> The only reason why I can see two different Portuguese wikis is because
>>>       
>> the
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>>> two (majority) versions -- European Portuguese and Brazillian Portuguese
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>> --
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>>> are very different. Are they?
>>>
>>> On 7/2/06, Luiz Augusto <lugusto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>>> 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
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>>>> a
>>>> new vote about it, only europeans speakers can vote on it.
>>>>
>>>> Is all ok to the current rules for request a new language?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> 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
>>