Hoi, The fact that you usurped the name Belarusian using for your script exclusively is and was not acceptable. Your presentation of history is wrong because there was a request for a Wikipedia in the official orthography. The discussions where clear; there was no willingness to cooperate. Nothing technical there.
Discriminating; sure. There is the disgrace that the Belarusian Wikipedias have to deal with having two wikipedias. I hope they do. I think that your intelligentsia and Berto's mafia are quite similar. They are groups that assume they have a right to things that are not necessarily theirs to have.
Thanks, GerardM
On 4/29/07, Alexander Cajcyc czalex@bk.ru wrote:
Dear Berto,
Would you please define the expression "internal mafia" to us.
I personally did not loose any admin privileges in "be" as I actually never had ones. Surprisingly, now I _am_ an admin in be-x-old. I'm glad that being wiki admin and feeling power this way seems to be something sexual and so much valuable to you.
The "classical orthography" Wikipedia was - read my lips - the FIRST to be there on wikipedia.org. It was created TWO YEARS before the official orthography supporters organised their initiative. It had and has a developed structure, rules etc. The path could only be creating parallel "classical"-official interfaces and article versions within one Wiki - and the work was going that way, the problem was purely technical. But once upon a time the brave Wikimedia administration just came in and put the whole project on a discriminating "-x-old" domain and gave the be-wiki to the official orthography initiative.
Thanks for not deleting it, really.
AC
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Berto 'd Sera Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:48 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] be: and be-x-old: interwiki
Oh my God...
Define "intelligentsiya". I did not know we had "cultural level codes"...
Listen you guys cannot one day come here and claim that "there are less differences than between EN_US and EN_UK" and the other come here and tell us that it's a tragedy because we censor you as a unique language.
It's either TWO languages or not. If yes:
- yours hasn't got an ISO code and shouldn't be hosted here
If no:
- the only thing that changed is minor things like "neighbor=neighbour"
AND the admin structure. That is, you lost your internal mafia and cry for that.
I can understand that power is often a matter in human societies, yet... what do you get from being an admin in a wiki? Do you become popular? Do you have more sexual partners? Or do you get money to allow this or that article to be published? I don't know...
Start from defining "intelligentsiya", I'm really curious.
Bèrto 'd Sèra Personagi dl'ann 2006 për l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojàotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Cajcyc Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:35 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] be: and be-x-old: interwiki
The 2005 paper bases on pre-reformed orthography used in emigrant communities and among intelligentsiya. It sums it up and standartises it.
Soviet-orthography wikipedians refused to compromise, so there will be two Belarusian wikipedias :(
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of GerardM Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:22 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] be: and be-x-old: interwiki
Hoi, The names you suggest are not what I would consider good proposals. Given that this orthography is based on a paper in 2005 it hardly qualifies as classic. Thanks, Gerard
On 4/29/07, Alexander Cajcyc czalex@bk.ru wrote:
By the way, when will the wikipedia prefix for Classical Belarusian changed to something reasonable from the temporary "be-x-old"? A good proposal was "be-classic", "be-class" or similar.
A.C.
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Ihar Hrachyshka Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 10:56 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] be: and be-x-old: interwiki
У Няд, 29/04/2007 у 09:08 +0200, Andre Engels піша:
Doing interwiki links to be-x-old: is now possible; however, both wikipedias now have "Беларуская" as the name for the language. I think there should be an extra specification to distinguish the two, just like nb: does not have 'Norsk' any more, but is called 'Norsk (bokmål)'.
Does anyone who knows Belarus have good idea for the separate names? My own guess does not get further than a translation of "Belarussian (official)" for be:
be-x-old should be named like "Беларуская (тарашкевіца)"
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