[Wikipedia-l] New Wikipedia language

[Ian Mackinnon]

Well, not really a new language, but I'm frustrated that Traditional Chinese 
is lumped into the  Simplified Chinese version of Wikipedia. The problem 
with this is the main page is only in Simplified Chinese and when looking up 
articles, it does not go directly to the page but gives the option to choose 
whether you want to go to the simplified or the traditional version.

I strongly request that the Traditional Chinese version of Wikipedia be 
given it's own language space, tw.wikipedia.org would be better. It should 
be common sense that these 2 styles of writing should not be combined 
together. Overseas Chinese and non-China born/educated persons who studied 
traditional Chinese writing have difficulty reading the simplified version. 
The current configuration just makes it frustrating to browse articles.

A real good argument I can give for this is why does wikipedia have 
simple.wikipedia.org for "Simple English" instead of it being lumped into 
en.wikipedia.org? I hope you see what I'm talking about and split 
zh.wikipedia.org and tw.wikipedia.org so there's no more confusion for 
Chinese readers of wikipedia.org

Thanks!

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