[Wikipedia-l] Re: Quenya language request, and Chinese Wikipedia again

[Tony Sidaway]

Neil Harris said:
>
> Here's the nice, counter-intuitive consequence to this proposal: it
> provides an incentive to alternative-Chinese-language proponents to add
> content to the mainstream-Chinese Wikipedia, and recruit more people to
> do so, so that it will grow as rapidly as possible. When the 50,000
> target is reached, it is probable that many of these new editors will
> start to concentrate on their own local language versions; however,
> many of them will, I imagine, also continue to work on the main Chinese
> Wikipedia, and there will be a major incentive for content to flow in
> translation between the different Chinese Wikipedias. So it's a win-win
> proposal.

That one's worthy of Machiavelli himself.   The man's a genius!