Hallo, I'd like to repeat my question from a few days ago in the "eligible / ineligible Wikipedia requests: H" email, to make sure that it's properly discussed.
Does anyone disagree with marking the request for Wikipedia Hanja as ineligible? My rationale: I don't know Korean, but to the best of my understanding, Hanja is occasionally used in books and newspapers, and it is similarly used in the Korean Wikipedia. Wider usage of Hanja is outdated, and comparable to Polytonic Greek or pre-1918 Russian. The request says that it should be eligible for the same reason that Mongolian in Mongolian script is eligible ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Mongolian_written_in_Mongolian_script ), but this comparison is not valid: Mongolian in Cyrillic and in Mongolian script may represent the same language (and I'm actually not even sure about that), but the scripts are completely different, and both are currently widely used for general-purpose writing by different (and only partly overlapping) groups of people, whereas Hanja has not been used for general-purpose writing for several decades. If this is factually wrong, or if this is factually correct, but you have a different conclusion, I'm happy to hear it. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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