[Wikipedia-l] About creating a new language on Wikipedia

[GerardM]

Hoi,
I understand that a discussion about Catalan also exists in the ISO 639
world. My impression is that Catalan and Valencian are both considered to be
part of "Ibero-Romance Northeastern". However, given that Catalan has so far
been considered to include Valencian, it will be interesting to see what the
result will be.

When you ask for help for starting "your own" Wikipedia, it has to be
understood what the language context is. When people say our language is
different, it does not automatically follow that their assessment is
accepted for instance, there are differences between the many flavours of
Spanish, English, Portuguese and we do not consider the difference enough
reason to start another Wikipedia project for flavours of those languages.

So from my perspective, it is of relevance what happens in the ISO 639
realm. When they make Valencian indeed a language, it will be interesting to
see what the impact will be on Catalan.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 7/5/07, Carlos Navarro <carlos.navarro.mallach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Our friends and I we're very surprised about the answers replied to my
> mail
> account because we consider Valencian different to Catalan and that's why
> we
> want to start our Wikipedia. We have a lot of articles and info explaining
> those differences, we have our culture, different to Catalonian culture,
> our
> traditions and our celebrations. We want to put this in our Wikipedia, but
> first you must understand that Valencian is not Catalan. I repeat the
> answer: Anybody can help?
>
> Thanks for the replies,
>
> Carlos.
>
>
> 2007/7/5, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The intention is that you may use ca.wikipedia.org.
> >
> > It is actually started by Valencians, and prominent writers there are
> > Valencian.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On 04/07/07, Carlos Navarro Mallach <carlos.navarro.mallach at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi all there,
> > >
> > > I want to create a new version of Wikipedia in my mother language,
> > > Valencian, but I don't know how to do it. I've searched for my
> language
> > > and I haven't found it. Anybody can help me? I've a lot of friends
> > > anxious for writing in our language.
> > >
> > > Thank you very much and sorry about my english......
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Carlos.
> > >
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