[Foundation-l] Supporting languages is supporting people

[Nikola Smolenski]

On Saturday 27 October 2007 20:01, Marco Chiesa wrote:
> mother tongue for the interface. It becomes even more absurd for those
> languages which do not have a standard koiné, but only dialects. This is
> the case for most of the regional languages of Italy, such as Lombard or
> Emilian-Romagnan. These project have 1 wikipedia each because there is 1
> ISO-code for the language, but in many cases articles have more than one
> version, to cover the different dialects. But they can (actually, must -
> see above) have only one localisation, which of course for many users
> will be in a different <strike>language</strike> variant of the

They in fact can have more localisations, like Chinese Wikipedia does. And of 
course logged in users can always change their localisation.