"Some dialect of English" implies that Cantonese is merely a dialect of Chinese.
Anyhow, if a Wikipedia in an English dialect were requested, and the person organising the vote sent private e-mails to all people claiming that to be their home dialect notifying them of the vote, those people would most likely vote "against" the creation of such a Wikipedia.
Why should we leave the future of a Cantonese Wikipedia up to Mandarin speakers? That would be like not only letting (which is what we're already sort of doing by allowing non-speakers to vote), but actually ENCOURAGING all of Serbia to vote in a referendum on Kosovar independence, which is by no rational measure fair.
Given the current results of the vote, and the fact that a huge portion of the people who voted are actually native Cantonese speakers (on both sides -- in fact,
Mark
On 05/09/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/5/05, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote:
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!
It's not policy. There is no policy for creating new languages (just a draft one at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_policy_for_wikis_in_new_languages). I was just giving my opinion, and I feel that the relevant communities should be told about any language proposals, not only Sinetic ones. If some dialect of English were proposed, it would be very unfair to try to hide that from the existing English language communities within Wikimedia.
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