[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia in Chinese dialects

[Mark Williamson]

I am sorry, I confused your name with somebody else's.

My question for you however is: do you have any objection to having
these Wikipedias on a /trial basis/ to see what happens?

Mark

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:54:46 +0800, Sheng Jiong <sheng.jiong at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are there
> > schools being set up to teach written vernaculars as opposed to
> > standard Mandrin, are there novels, dictionaries etc. being published
> > in large numbers, is there a movement. In short, has someone shown a
> > notable and documentable desire to separate dialects from Chinese? My
> > research (posted some time ago) found a case, but not an overwhelming
> > one, for some degree of linguistic separationism in progress.
> 
> A very good point indeed. And I also agree with Andrew's view, that
> Wikipedia's chief aim is to write encyclopedias, not promoting any
> kind of promoting of languages. If any Chinese dialects any other than
> Mandarin has received significant attention in the world, and that
> people have gotten used to writing/reading these languages, there is
> of course a need to set up a Wikipedia in this language. But the truth
> is, all Chinese dialects other than Mandarin remain a spoken language,
> and extremely few books/articles/etc. are published in dialects. In
> fact we do not even know what writing system we should use should
> there be a Chinese dialect Wikipedia.
> 
> And to Mark: please do note that I speak Shanghainese rather than
> Min-nan. Therefore among those opposers there is also a native speaker
> of the language. It is not as you wrote that only those who do not
> speak the language oppose the proposal. I am still strongly opposed to
> the set up of any Chinese dialect Wikipedias. And I am not actually
> glad to see the Min-nan Wikipedia too. I simply doubt if any Min-nan
> speakers can understand the current Min-nan Wikipedia.
> 
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