National chapters (was Re: [Foundation-l] UK Wikimedia Foundation notes)

[David Gerard]

Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales (jwales at wikia.com) [050329 05:21]:
> David Gerard wrote:

> > Why are sr:, hr: and bs: still separate wikis, despite the languages being
> > barely different than British and American? (And Cantonese still hasn't got
> > a wiki ...)
> > (I can guess the answers: they're called separate languages for obvious
> > local political reasons, and the participants have no interest in merging
> > them.)

> I think it's a bit worse than that on our part.  I think it just
> happened by accident historically, and they have all continued forward
> in a state of general neglect.  I would strongly support a merger of
> these to whatever extent is practical.  (There is a problem of script
> for 2 of the 3, as I recall, and I don't know how if there's a simple
> machine solution.)


Worse than that even - sh: was Serbo-Croatian, then they were separated at
some stage. Anyone know the history?


- d.