[Wikipedia-l] Request for classical Chinese

[abc_root]

You mean you want to have all these in the same wikipedia? That would not
be useful because very few people can read all these.

--- Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> からのメッセージ：
> I have an idea: Let's just make a zh-whatever: for all the different
> things relating to Chinese that people want. They can mix Cantonese
> with Wu with Mandarin, some romanized, some using characters, they
> can
> add classical  chinese, even jiaguwenzi (tortoise shell ancient
> characters), as well as zhuyin fuhao, and dungan (ie sichuan mandarin
> writtne in cyrillic basically), and we can also mix in English and
> Russian and Portuguese and Korean.
> 
> So what do you think?
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:03:08 +0000, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > abc_root wrote:
> > 
> > > I would like to request a new Wikipedia for classical Chinese or
> kanbun(
> > > 貍「譁・譁・ィ譁・ which is the standard form of Chinese for
> about two thousand
> > > years and was used throughout East Asia as the formal form of
> writing. Its
> > > importance in East Asia is like that of Latin in Europe. Now that
> > > Wikipedias are running or being started for many of the languages
> in East
> > > Asia, it seems that the language which is the backbone of these
> languages
> > > should also have a place.
> > 
> > So would this be created before or after a Cantonese wikipedia?
> > 
> > 
> > - d.
> > 
> > 
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