[Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikipedia in European Portuguese

Tue Jul 4 07:16:03 UTC 2006

Hoi,
What "we" call Chinese is no longer considered a language.. 
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=zho
Thanks,
  GerardM

James Hare wrote:
> O RLY?
>
> I thought they were dialects of Chinese.
>
> On 7/4/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hoi,
>> Cantonese and Mandarin are BOTH languages according to ISO-639-3.
>> Thanks,
>>     GerardM
>>
>>
>> James Hare wrote:
>>     
>>> Yes, dialect forks are just a waste of space, bandwidth and time, unless
>>>       
>> the
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>>> dialects vary greatly (such as Cantonese and Mandarin).
>>>
>>> On 7/3/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> James Hare wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> The only reason why I can see two different Portuguese wikis is
>>>>>           
>> because
>>     
>>>> the
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> two (majority) versions -- European Portuguese and Brazillian
>>>>>           
>> Portuguese
>>     
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> are very different. Are they?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/2/06, Luiz Augusto <lugusto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Sorry for my English. Recently, a newbie from Portuguese Wikipedia
>>>>>>             
>> has
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>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is all ok to the current rules for request a new language?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>> As a fluent portuguese speaker, I have no idea why a vote of this
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>> nature
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>>>> must be restricted to only those who come from a certain country or
>>>> continent.  I am, however, opposed to this idea, as well as the earlier
>>>> Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia proposal that also failed.  To me this
>>>> sounds like somebody trying to establish rules that would make his pet
>>>> project work, when there is strong opposition to the idea.  I'll put
>>>> more of my thoughts on the new language poll page to keep down
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>> bandwidth.
>>     
>>>> --
>>>> Robert Scott Horning