David Gerard
said:
> If we have a precedent that zh: can block
the existence of a Cantonese
> Wikipedia, can en: block Quenya? Please?
I hope we have no such precedent. Allowing the
speakers of a rival
language to veto the production of a Wikipedia would not be right.
Fuzheado's arguments appear to be along those lines - in particular the
argument that zh: needs the resources instead (as if volunteers are
employees who can be reassigned at will, even assuming the argument it
needs the resources so desperately is valid).
But as of yet, Wikimedia policy in general seems to disagree sharply
with this idea. Although, perhaps to the surprise of some, while I am
FOR considering the creation of a Quenya Wikipedia, at the moment I am
decidedly AGAINST its creation among the set of existing Wikipedias
and given what has and has not been allowed so far.
Given tokipona:'s having been moved off-site (although apparently with
little or no notice to or involvement of Tokiponites), I think that
the Klingon Wikipedia should be moved to
kli.org and the Lojban
Wikipedia should be considered - CONSIDERED - for being moved to
lojban.org.
Their
observations (and I've seen some potentially persuasive arguments on
either side in the Chinese Wikipedia discussion though I have not
investigated it closely) should not be dismissed as irrelevant, but they
shouldn't be allowed to block an otherwise viable Wikipedia.
We have Wikipedias for things that are clearly dialects; Cantonese is
mutually-unintelligible with Mandarin.
But let's start a Quenya Wikipedia instead. Hell, that's not grossly
insulting! At all!
Indeed. I'm sure Cantonese and Wu speakers would not take that as a
smack in the face of their linguistic selves.
Mark