[Wikipedia-l] Why do we have them??

[James R. Johnson]

Not to start up another argument (I remember the last ones), but this sounds
like the same thing betweek Bokmal and Nynorsk.

James

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[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Williamson
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 10:23 PM
To: wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Why do we have them??

Hi all,
I have a question: why do we have separate Wikipedias for Malay and
Indonesian?

According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differences_between_Malay_and_Indonesian
, "The differences between Malay (Bahasa Melayu) and Indonesian
(Bahasa Indonesia) are comparable to the those between British English
and American English."

If this is the case, then why does our policy on English differ so
sharply than our policy with Malay/Indonesian?

Don't people realise that we're dividing labour? If they had
col-laborated on a single Wikipedia from the very beginning, the
Malay/Indonesian Wikipedia would probably have at least 15k articles
by now.

Mark

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