A lot more people live in Brazil than in Portugal, so i don't think that this "overrunning" is hostile or even intentional - it's simply natural.
The TV in Portugal shows a lot of Brazilian telenovelas. If those telenovelas aren't translated when shown on Portuguese TV, then a separate Wikipedia is probably not needed - I've been learning Portuguese for two years now, mostly with a European teacher and a little with a Brazilian one, and my impression was that the difference in speaking is considerably bigger than in writing. People who know Portuguese better than i do are welcome to correct me. The policy about the different dialects in pt.wikipedia is nearly the same as in en.wikipedia. I don't think that complete and perfect automatic on-the-fly conversion between European and Brazilian is possible, but yet again - if en.wikipedia survives very well without it, then pt.wikipedia can, too. On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:06, Mark Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > skype: node.ue > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Manuel Coutinho <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:28 AM > Subject: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia > To: [email protected] > > > Dear Node, > > It has come to my attention quite some time ago that the Portuguese version > of wikipedia is being overrun with articles written in Brazilian > Portuguese, > some of which I have corrected myself but the problem has, long since grown > out of control. > I'm writting to suggest the creation of a new version of wikipedia in > Portuguese from Portugal, in an attempt to provide Portuguese users with > articles written in their correct version of the dialect. > I don't know why this hasn't been already implemented since the language > options on the control panel when you create a new wikipedia user create > that distinction already. > I hope that you take this under consideration and provide me with the > guidelines to start this project. > I'm sure that i will be able to find supporters that are willing to start > the process of translating already existing articles as well as creating > new > ones. > > Thank you very much. > > Yours trully, > > Manuel A. C. Coutinho > Designer de Comunicação > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > InstantDesign* Comunicação e Equipamento > www.instdesign.com > > T +351 93 479 90 66 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > -- אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
