Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Having two wikipedias for the same language is not allowed within the rules > of the language policy. The premise that an article on the > pt.wikipedia.orgis in Portuguese Portuguese is a fallacy. It would be > the same as stating > that every article on the English language Wikipedia is in American English. > It is not. > > Milos in his reply is looking for a way out of this conundrum by technical > means; effectively a tool that translates from one form of Portuguese into > the other. Such a solution is for instance in use at the Serbian Wikipedia > where the language is transliterated from Cyrillic into Latin script and the > other way around. > Thanks, > GerardM > >
I think it may be useful to note that the policy page on the the Portuguese wikipedia looks to the casual observer as if the folks on that wikipedia have expended some considerable thought on how to do this in the best possible manner: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vers%C3%B5es_da_l%C3%ADngua_portuguesa FWIW I do agree that of all the options the worst one would be to split into two projects. It could easily turn out that 50 % of European Portuguese speakers kept editing the old project, or even that only say a 10 % fringe group started editing the new European Portuguese only project. That would be a farce. Speaking only for myself, I don't think a word substitution solution should be tried either, except as a very last resort, with a very strong community consensus that that is the only way forward. To me it seems from the policy page linked above, that the contributors themselves of that community have thought things out for themselves pretty well. Of course I have not followed the Portuguese wikis community closely, so I may be very wrong, in which case there shouldn't be a problem for the wikis rough majority consensus to emerge, and action to be taken based on that. But in any case, nothing at all should be based on a single voice, there needs to be a multiplicity of viewpoints considered and consensus decision making employed. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
