[Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikipedia in European Portuguese

[James Hare]

O RLY?

I thought they were dialects of Chinese.

On 7/4/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >>
> >>
> >>> The only reason why I can see two different Portuguese wikis is
> because
> >>>
> >> the
> >>
> >>> two (majority) versions -- European Portuguese and Brazillian
> Portuguese
> >>>
> >> --
> >>
> >>> are very different. Are they?
> >>>
> >>> On 7/2/06, Luiz Augusto <lugusto at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> 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
> >>
> >>>> a
> >>>> new vote about it, only europeans speakers can vote on it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is all ok to the current rules for request a new language?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >> 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
> >>
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