[Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia.org

Fri Nov 14 19:13:48 UTC 2008

...and of course everybody always forgets Malay and Indonesian. The
people from these Wikipedias seem to have little desire to merge, but
it is a fact of life that Indonesian is just a standardised Malay
dialect, and that probably 95% of text copied from ms.wp to id.wp will
be perfectly correct, with only a handful of regional differences.

Mark

2008/11/14 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> 2008/11/14 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/11/14 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
>>> 2008/11/14 Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>:
>>>> Why not just rename it ro-cyrl.wikipedia.org *right now* and be done
>>>> with it?
>>>
>>> Because the people who actually use it would not consider it Romanian.
>>
>> But the ISO standard that we use for these decisions does. From what I
>> can tell, it is Romanian pure and simple, people saying otherwise are
>> doing so for purely political reasons.
>
> This is true yes (well mostly anyway I think one thing all sides can
> agree on is that that Romanian is not written in cyrillic). However
> this argument would also requires us to merge the Central South Slavic
> diasystem wikis something I feel best attempted from a long way away.
> Neptune perhaps.
>
>
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> geni
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