[Wikipedia-l] One Chinese Wikipedia

[Andrew Lih]

I'm not sure why zh-tw was created recently. I can count at least
three times before where we've requested it not be established so that
ZH would work towards a traditional-simplified solution.

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)


On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 03:17:09 -0700, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> I personally support the notion of One Chinese Wikipedia.  I think it
> makes the most sense from a language point of view, and additionally,
> I think it makes the most sense from the point of view of having a top
> quality NPOV resource.
> 
> --Jimbo
> 
> 
> 
> Lorenzarius wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Chinese Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia.org) was started in October 2002. At
> > that time, almost all texts were in simplified Chinese, because the
> > first Chinese wikipedians are mainly from mainland China. (Being a
> > traditional Chinese user since birth, I was "scared away" when I first
> > went to zh: and saw that the whole site is in simp. Chinese.) But at
> > that time, most of the zh wikipedians agree that there should only be
> > one Chinese Wikipedia, but not two, because simp. and traditional
> > Chinese is one language actually, the difference being that some
> > characters are written in a different way and that wikipedians from
> > different part of the world have different names/terms for the same
> > object. (Just like a British would write "The centre of a sulphur atom
> > on a railway ." while an American would write "The center of a sulfur
> > atom on a railroad.") Most of the zh wikipedians can read both form of
> > characters, though we write in our respective native form. That's why
> > we want to have ONE zh: only.
> >
> > We have been discussing on how to deal with this trad/simp problem
> > since the beginning. The consensus is that pages would be converted
> > between simp. and trad. according to the need of the reader/editor by
> > some automatic script or software. Though the development of such a
> > software has not started until recently (due to a lack of technical
> > assistance).
> >
> > I am writing this mail because I see that zh-tw.wikipedia.org has been
> > set up. Being a long-time contributor to zh:, I feel quite frustrated
> > because it seems that all the discussion we have on how to solve this
> > problem are in vain.
> >
> > Therefore I request that zh-tw.wikipedia.org and zh-cn.wikipedia.org
> > be redirected to zh.wikipedia.org.
> >
> > Regards
> > Lorenzarius
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Andrew Lih
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