Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Felipe Sanches felipe.sanches@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia new language request. There are 182.1 million people in Brazil who use Brazilian Portuguese as their main language. Brazilian Portuguese IS NOT the same as Portuguese (domain pt.wikipedia.org) and it still isn't on the list (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_language_wikis_available)
American English isn't the same as British English nor is Mexican Spanish the same as Spanish Spanish.
So you are going to have to justify balkanizing the Portuguese Wikipedia, IMO. A vote on that wiki (which is rather large and active) should be conducted.
I don't think that a vote would help. It will only show one group to be dominant, and may just divide that community even more. Accepting the other side's way of expressing itself is worth a lot more.
Ec