[Wikipedia-l] New request for Cantonese Wikipedia: vote at 29-6

[Walter van Kalken]

> I think it is only fair to allow
>the people on those projects to at least be aware of a proposal which
>is liable to take away editors from their own wiki.
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>Angela.
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I found our policy with regards to Chinese languages stranger and 
stranger. We do not do this if we open another Germanic or Romanic 
language pedia! Why do we do this with sinetic languages? The Manderin 
wikipedia is a large one! The loss of a few editors will not really 
detrimentally effect them. The government in Beijing is against 
promotion of any Sinetic  language but Mandarin. It is known that a 
couple of Chinese editors from mainland China have been frustrating any 
opening of any Sinetic language pedia in the past.

Waerth/Walter