Neil Harris said:
Here's the nice, counter-intuitive consequence to this proposal: it
provides an incentive to alternative-Chinese-language proponents to add
content to the mainstream-Chinese Wikipedia, and recruit more people to
do so, so that it will grow as rapidly as possible. When the 50,000
target is reached, it is probable that many of these new editors will
start to concentrate on their own local language versions; however,
many of them will, I imagine, also continue to work on the main Chinese
Wikipedia, and there will be a major incentive for content to flow in
translation between the different Chinese Wikipedias. So it's a win-win
proposal.
That one's worthy of Machiavelli himself. The man's a genius!