Sorry, this is unacceptable.
The ch: subdomain for both Wikipedia and Wikinews is reserved for the
Chamorro language of Guam. You may think it's a bit obscure, but it's
their national language and it has a few hundred thousand speakers.
Currently, the policy (as far as I know) is to have no separate
Wikipedias or Wikinewses for different countries, only for different
languages (thus, since Mexico and Spain both speak Spanish, there will
be a Spanish version but no Mexican or Spain-ish version).
If you are interested in a separate Wikipedia for Swiss German (as
people seemed to be doing at ch.wikipedia until recently, this is not
allowed), there is already the Allemannic Wikipedia which has some
Swiss users already I believe, but it seeks to integrate content from
all Allemannic varieties (thus including not only Swiss varieties but
Austrian, Liechtensteinian, Alsatian, etc).
There already exists a separate portal for Switzerland, with links to
the different Swiss Wikipedias (ie Deutsch, Français, Italiano, and
Rumantsch Grischun).
Mark
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:11:06 +0100, michael rueetschli
<m.rueetschli(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hy @ all
As first, sorry my bad english... my preferred languages are German and French.
I'm interested to start
-
http://ch.wikipedia.org and
-
http://ch.wikinews.org
details on
ch.wikipedia.org:
Switzerland is especially: The national languages are German, French,
Italian, and Romansh and this by only 7 millions habitants.
There's already a Page for swiss users:
http://wikimedia.org/ch-portal/ but i think that's a bad seller. I
have further plans with respectable and multilingual content for
Switzerland.
details on
ch.wikinews.org:
same motivation like
ch.wikipedia.org and
Switzerland has a strong economy with a lot's of interesting news.
Switzerland is not a member of the European Union. And so, we have
other interestes than germany.
and so on.
Are there also Plans like this?
Can i help?
If there no plans i will to start first with wikipedia.ch and secondly
wikinews.ch.
Are someone interesstet to help?
best regards
Michael Rueetschli
business data processing specialist
Switzerland
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