[Foundation-l] Fwd: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
To poor some cold water on this discussion. The language policy is quite
clear. There is no room for two Portuguese Wikipedias. When you are able to
convince the ISO 639-3 standard to make Portuguese a macro language it will
become different.

There have been languages that made that claim successfully and consequently
they become eligible for multiple Wikipedias. The Kurdish Wikipedia hosted
the Arabic scripted Sorani texts until it got its own Wikipedia.

So by all means discuss it, but from a language policy and committee point
of view, it will be a hard if not impossible case to argue to split the
pt.wikipedia at this time under the current conditions.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 24 March 2010 18:44, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think there are two options: Meta and pt.wp itself. My personal opinion
> is
> that it does not need to be bilingual, but that is of course up to you.
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado <vam at fct.unl.pt
> >wrote:
>
> > Thanks Chad. I know that, but what kind of page (what title)? Where?
> > Would it be alright to be bilingual?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Virgilio A. P. Machado
> >
> >
> > At 23:25 23-03-2010, you wrote:
> > >It requires you to take initiative to start the page and try to draw
> > >others into a discussion. You don't need anyone's permission to do
> > >that. Also, I think it was (briefly) glossed over before, but there
> > >/is/ the Language Converter code in MediaWiki that could be
> > >leveraged to help some here. I don't think it's necessarily a magic
> > >bullet, but it's worth exploring. I know nothing in Portuguese, so I
> > >don't really grasp how widespread the discrepancies are, but I
> > >assume there's rules to describe them. Social solutions are also
> > >helpful, like the aforementioned American/British and Cyrillic/Latin
> > >issues mentioned earlier in the thread. A combination of social and
> > >technical solutions might just help bring some closure to this
> > >issue. -Chad _______________________________________________
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