Although I would favour choice through user preferences, I find it
unfortunate that this matter should come up at a time when a segment of
the interested people are being blocked from the 'pedia.
Ec
Jiong Sheng wrote:
I thought Chinese Wikipedians have reached consensus at
the beginning
of the Chinese Wikipedia project two years ago that traditional and
simplified Chinese should be put together, because essentially they
are one language, with the same grammar and vocabulary. The difference
between traditional and simplified Chinese sometimes is even subtler
than the difference between American and British English.
Most native speakers of the Chinese language can read both sets of
writing system. No one has yet complained that they cannot read
simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese. Our ultimate goal is to
develop an auto conversion script that would display simplified or
traditional Chinese according to users' preference. Progress is slow,
but efforts have been put in.