[Wikipedia-l] The Borders of Language Variety Tolerance

[Wouter Steenbeek]

>I don't think there's any clear definitions yet, but the points that I
>think would be worth considering are:
>* The amount of difference to an existing language
>* Whether it is generally, somewhere or hardly anywhere considered a
>language rather than a dialect
>* Whether there exists a well-defined and generally accepted orthography
>* Whether there are Wikipedians willing to write for the Wikipedia and how 
>many.
>
>In general, we have gone with ISO-639 in deciding what is a language
>and what a dialect, only Allemanish and Aromanian have been accepted
>without such a code. However, that too is not an official policy, just
>a "the way we have done it till now".
>
>Andre Engels

I am aware of most of this, but my concern is: how much must a poorly 
recognised and unstandardised language variety differ from its prestigious 
sister to be granted a wikipedia?

Wouter

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