[Foundation-l] Vandalism and small wikis

[geni]

On 11/29/06, Darko Bulatovic <mail at itam.ws> wrote:
> geni wrote:
> > Not so much. there are a number of different forms of English and yet
> > it is accepted that there is only one language. In some areas "thou"
> > still exists. In others colour is spelled color. What standisation
> > there is is often not goverment mandated.
> >
> >
> ---  in mayor cases  Academies( or similar institutions) are working on
> language standardisation. So that are working under Goverment policy on
> educational and science level. Freedom in that filed is also regulated
> on Goverment level, so in any case it is political meter. On that level
> I was talking about.


Historically things have been somewhat different.

> Please check this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(spelling)
>
> Part of text: This table gives the accepted spellings (following
> *government *guidelines and major dictionaries).

Governments at the present time are one of the few groups to produce
enough material to need to create manuals of style. that does not mean
they are required for standardisation of language



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geni