[Wikipedia-l] New Wikipedia language

Wed Jun 16 05:13:28 UTC 2004

Ian Mackinnon wrote: 

> I strongly request that the Traditional Chinese version of Wikipedia be
> given it's own language space...

> 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 don't feel this is a strong argument for splitting Traditional and
Simplified Chinese. The Simple English Wikipedia has only attracted
1500 articles so far. I expect it may have been far more successful
had it been better merged with the English Wikipedia at the beginning.

Angela.