Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:40:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com
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--- 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
In Norway there are two official forms of written norwegian (bokm�l ~90% and nynorsk ~10%) that I suppose differ more than br_pt and pt_pt judging from the comments here on the list. In addition there is one (perhaps two) "unofficial" conservative form also in use(riksm�l), especially by one of the first and most active contributors (Wolfram). We have had some long and "disruptive" discussions and and I suspect that new contributors /might/ have been turned off by the dominant form bokm�l being used on the interface and on almost all articles.
Recently a new contributor has been wary of the dominance of bokm�l and wanted to start a new nynorsk wikipedia, which has also been done, just like that! http://nn.wikipedia.org
the discussions that ensued before and after have resulted in me making this (roughly translated) policy, which nobody has disagreed with yet (the most active users in the discussion have agreed):
1 Articles on the norwegian Wikipedia can be written in any currently active form of norwegian. 2 Since Wikipedia is a [[wiki]], anyone ''can'' change the language form of an article, it should then be up to this user to: 2.1 Change the language form of the whole article in one operation. 2.2 Move the article to a new name if needed. 2.3 Not do this to provoke or harm the work of others. 2.4 Communicate the content as good or better than before.
It is quite finished yet, I found some errors now, but I think this will prevent the balkanization of the Norwegian Wikipedia.
--Dittaeva