On Tuesday 12 April 2005 22:46, Milos Rancic wrote:
On Apr 12, 2005 11:51 PM, Nikola Smolenski
<smolensk(a)eunet.yu> wrote:
Frankly, to me this entire conversation sounds
like much ado about
nothing. Even on Serbian Wikipedia noone actually said that he actually
needs Latin alphabet, and a few people said that they are for Latin
because maybe someone would need it. So I don't see why introducing it.
This is not true. We voted about it last summer. One person explicitly
asked for Latin alphabet [[sr:Корисник:Sergivs]], two said that it
should be used, six voted against (seventh person voted after the
You don't say. Well, as I said, and you confirmed, noone said that he actually
NEEDS Latin alphabet. Yes, some WANTED it, but noone NEEDED it. Noone
complained of not being able to see Cyrillic or write in Cyrillic or about
anything else. In addition, the vote was about "inclusion of Latin pages",
not about whether each and every page would be in Latin!
conclusion of voting). I asked about consequences of
voting at
wikimeda-l list and answer was clear: if Latin alphabet wouldn't be
included into sr.wikipedia, it would be tyranny of majority. After
I am reading that thread right now and I can say you salted it really fine.
"In this moment we have very strong xenophobic movement. A lot of them are
very active on Internet and on Wikipedia, too. They do not accept Latin
alphabet as "Serbian"."
Tyranny of majority is better than tyranny of minority.
all, we can vote about it again and situation in this
moment would be
more pro-Latin.
Could we vote if it would be more pro-Cyrillic?
Nikola, your political reasons for obstruction of
introduction of
Latin alphabet into Serbian Wikipedia are clear. But, Serbian
Well if they are so clear perhaps then you can explain them to me because I
don't see them so well, and other people on this list might not see them too.
Wikipedia should be used by all Serbian speaking
people, not only by
one political faction.
What prevents Serbian Wikipedia from being used by all Serbian speaking people
right now?
(Milos sent this message to me, and CCed it to Wikitech list; perhaps the CC
is the reason for it didn't appear on the list.)