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

[Ray Saintonge]

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?
>
There already is a Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.  Leaving aside the question 
of Cyrillic Serbian what it would take would be for the various flavours 
of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian nationalism to start contributing to 
the common project, and letting the separate projects fade into 
obscurity.  You won't accomplish anything by shutting down the separate 
projects and telling the participants that they can only contribute to 
the common one.  It is difficult in an area that has centuries of 
experience at stressing differences to suddenly shift gears into a 
common enterprise.  Tito had the sort of personality that could enforce 
this, but it didn't last long after his death.

In the short run it will take individuals who are willing to copy and 
consolidate articles from the three separate projects, preferably 
beginning with non-controversial subjects.

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