[Wikipedia-l] New Wikipedia language

Tue Jun 15 21:26:53 UTC 2004

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:43:44PM +0000, Ian Mackinnon wrote:
> Well, not really a new language, but I'm frustrated that Traditional 
> Chinese is lumped into the  Simplified Chinese version of Wikipedia. The 
> problem with this is the main page is only in Simplified Chinese and when 
> looking up articles, it does not go directly to the page but gives the 
> option to choose whether you want to go to the simplified or the 
> traditional version.
> 
> I strongly request that the Traditional Chinese version of Wikipedia be 
> given it's own language space, tw.wikipedia.org would be better. It should 
> be common sense that these 2 styles of writing should not be combined 
> together. Overseas Chinese and non-China born/educated persons who studied 
> traditional Chinese writing have difficulty reading the simplified version. 
> The current configuration just makes it frustrating to browse articles.
> 
> A real good argument I can give for this is why does wikipedia have 
> simple.wikipedia.org for "Simple English" instead of it being lumped into 
> en.wikipedia.org? I hope you see what I'm talking about and split 
> zh.wikipedia.org and tw.wikipedia.org so there's no more confusion for 
> Chinese readers of wikipedia.org

tw is the ISO-639-2 code for the language "twi".

Regards,

JeLuF