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

[Berto 'd Sera]

Hoi,

As previously stated, we do not make any decision about what is a language
and what is not. The source making all such decisions for us is ISO 639-3.
We simply import their standard.

Currently they do not classify Valencian as an independent language, so we
cannot open a wikipedia in that language. If you feel that ISO is in error
you should open a request for an ISO code for Valencian. 

It's not very easy, yet if you have strong scientific arguments to back your
request they may well consider it.

Berto 'd Sera
Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
 

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From: wikipedia-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Carlos Navarro
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 4:12 PM
To: wikipedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] About creating a new language on Wikipedia

Of course it's an stupidity making a new Wikipedia for a same language. But
at this moment, it's a fact that Valencian is not Catalonian, but there is a
lot of people saying that Valencian is the same as Catalonian. We, the true
valencian people (people who born in Valencia and has a huge legacy of
valencian parents), don't accept this term, because we know our real
history. We know facts such as when Joanot Martorell (a historic valencian
writer) wrote Tirant Lo Blanch many centuries ago, he said that he wrotes
the novel into "the beautiful and rich valencian language". Examples like
that, we have a lot. Is about those facts because we want to make our own
Wikipedia.

Regards,

Carlos.


2007/7/12, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>
> On 05/07/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> And it's important to keep in mind: the reason we have 200+ Wikipedias
> is only mutual incomprehensibility, so as to serve the readers. There
> are occasional stupidities like having four Wikipedias for
> Serbo-Croatian, but they remain examples of how not to do it rather
> than reasons to perpetuate unnecessary multiplication of Wikipedias.
>
>
> - d.
>
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