[Wikipedia-l] Individual Wikipedias for different Sinitic vernaculars (Cantonese debate) - update

Thu Jan 27 09:34:07 UTC 2005

> 1. That is to say nothing of Alaya

Because he/she does not even have a user page! Go check on meta, en,
zh, and you can find none!

> 2. If we subjected all new Wikipedias to such standards, we would
> probably only have 20 Wikipedias

Well, Shanghainese is different from Ning-bo dialect (My grandma
speaks that, and believe me, sometimes I cannot comprehend her
slangs), Hangzhou dialect (I have been to Hangzhou many times, and
again I can catch only a few phrases), Suzhou dialect, Subei dialect
(many old men in Shanghai were from Subei, and they can be easily
identified once they open their mouths). That makes four varieties of
Wu already, and there will be more. Considering all other dialects and
their varieties, you can have hundreds of Wikipedias already. Enjoy
surfing!

And why don't you set up some more Wikipedias for dialects in other
languages? English, for example, has many varities too. Why not have
an American English Wikipedia, British English Wikipedia, Australian
English Wikipedia. And yes, even in Britain people speak different
English as well. So why don't we have one Wikipedia for everybody,
since we all speak the language differently?

> 3. Why are you so much against these Wikipedias being created if they
> are as you say so useless? Could it hurt?

Yes, It will turn Wikipedia into a big joke.