[Wikipedia-l] Serbo-Croatian wikipedia

[Ray Saintonge]

Milos Rancic wrote:

>On 1/8/06, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>So it appears that there is no valid reason to have separate wikis for each country that
>>was formerly part of Yugoslavia. One Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia will do, IMO.
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>Until we would have a good implementation of software, separate
>Wikipedias are needed. Serbo-Croatian is, again, offensive term to 90%
>of inhabitants of Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and
>Croatia.
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Perhaps patience is required at least until the software is working.  My 
impression from the Yugoslave diaspora is that Serbo-Croatian is a 
preferred term if it saves them from having to identify themselves with 
one or another of the factions.  That or they will use the vague phrase, 
"my language".

>>That Serbian, Croation, and Bosnian are separate languages appears to be a
>>politically-convenient fiction that wants to enforce differences that don't really exist. That
>>can only tend to enforce component-nation-specific POVs and thus violate NPOV (as
>>would having separate Wikipedais for Simplified and Traditional Chinese).
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>POV is present on English Wikipedia, too. There are no chance to add
>free about USA foreign politics on English Wikipedia. For example,
>there are a number of articles named as "incidents" even US soldiers
>were killing a lot of civilians. Pushing POV is very usual on
>Wikipedia.
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I'm sure that these problems are constant irritations in every project 
with more than one contributor.

Ec