On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:31:09 -0700, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So this means you believe a Cantonese Wikipedia will
have no users and
will not be sustainable?
You're sure changing your tune fast. A minute ago, it was "My pet
project will lose resources!!!", but when you saw that didn't go over
too well with anybody you change it to "I feel deeply for these
people, and my primary concern is that they'll be lonely and I think
their minds are being controlled by Mark."
As usual, wild exaggerations by Mark. Please find a quote or a pointer
to anything I've said that resembles "My pet project will lose
resources!!!" It's getting tired.
If I recall correctly, zh.wikipedia's history does
not involve having
the interface translated and a critical mass of people and articles
/before/ the creation of the subdomain, and even when articles started
to be created this was hardly true at first.
I think it was a pretty safe bet that the language of 1 billion
speakers would be started sooner than later. Also, zh: was started in
October 2002 by Mountain who drove the development of Unicode support
in Wikipedia. So this is beyond critical mass - it was leadership in
the whole WP project.
And just because you have relatives who speak five
Chinese dialects
doesn't mean you can't be a linguistic imperialist.
<groan>
Stalin, the master of linguistic imperialism, came
from a
Georgian-speaking family.
You're on the verge of realizing Godwin's Law.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)