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

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Mon Sep 12 03:42:33 UTC 2005


Paweł Dembowski wrote:
>>Well, we still wouldn't split the two, because it's still lunacy to split.
> 
> 
> Why don't we just have a Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia then instead of
> separate ones for each dialect?

By historical accident more than anything else.  I don't consider the
current situation to be ideal, but my deep respect for the choices of
the community means that any decision to merge is going to come over a
time of careful discussion and consensus building.

--Jimbo




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