2009/12/6 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>: > 2009/12/6 WereSpielChequers <[email protected]>:
>> Aside from the possibility that London might want to be a chapter, I >> would have thought that organising subchapters by language would be at >> least as relevant as geographical ones. We have wikis for Scots and at >> least three celtic languages, plus perhaps Bangla and other languages? >> I see no reason why we can't cut this cake in several different >> dimensions, depending on whats relevant to the task in hand. > Chapters are supposed to be geographic in range rather than > linguistic. I guess there is no reason why we can't use different > rules for subchapters, though. For the most part languages follow > geographic lines anyway, it's just immigrant languages that don't. I vaguely recall that some *huge* proportion (>90%) of Bangla (I think) speakers in Britain are in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London. So geographical distribution does happen! There will be towns where immigrants from a given place will congregate. c.f. Bradford and Birmingham as the places of origin of many "Indian" dishes. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
