[Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikipedia in European Portuguese

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Tue Jul 4 02:26:32 UTC 2006


Luiz Augusto wrote:
> Sorry for my English. Recently, a newbie from Portuguese Wikipedia has
> proposed on meta a vote to create Wikipedia in european portuguese. He don't
> talked about it with any editor from pt:Wikipedia and that proposal has
> discovered by me, accidentally. I send a note in Village Pump from
> pt:wikipedia. More than 30 editors has voted against that proposal.
> Unconsoled with this, he was suspended that voting and is imposing to, in a
> new vote about it, only europeans speakers can vote on it.

There will be no division of Portuguese into Brazilian and European
without a huge amount of broad based support from many diverse parties,
which as far as I am able to understand from past discussions, is just
not going to happen.




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