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<font size="-1"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Looking at
the navigation links it is clear that the "zh" stands for "Zhong wen,"
which means Chinese language in the most general sense. I know you are
all discussing other aspects but I thought I'd clarify this point in
case it is not already... <br>
<br>
zh-cn is Chinese language of China (PRC); zh-tw is Chinese in Taiwan;
zh-sg is Chinese in Singapore; and of course zh-hk is Chinese in Hong
Kong. The predominant Chinese language of Hong Kong is Cantonese
(Guang-dong Hua). Though Hong Kong uses traditional characters, when
spoken ,Cantonese is generally not mutually intelligible with Mandarin,
and I do not know if written Chinese in a Hong Kong wikia would be in
anything but strongly flavored by the spoken language difference. It
might depend a great deal on the educational level of the participants.
<br>
<br>
Taiwan and China both use the Northern dialect of Mandarin as standard,
calling it Guo Yu and Pu-tong Hua, respectively. Yet they differ in the
writing system. Singapore I know less about, but given the
independence of the Chinese community there, I expect they would have
distinctive differences from any of the above in the written form and
possibly in speech.<br>
<br>
I studied Mandarin for many years, going so far as to get my B.A. in it
at UCSD. However, I have lost my ability to read it on the fly... I get
by with my dictionary.<br>
<br>
Becky<br>
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Chad Lupkes wrote:
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cite="mid801553ab0608020741l2bd6bbf6ma916ca15dd1e69d5@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<div>I've been working on getting all the languages documented, as
well as adding the new wikia on political subjects onto the main
Portal:Politics page. I found this site:</div>
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<div><a href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/">http://leftbbs.wikia.com/</a></div>
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<div>It's a Chinese wikia for left wing information, but what caught
my attention was the navigation links along the top.</div>
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<div><a
href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh">zh</a>
<li id="ca-varlang-1"><a
href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-cn">cn</a>
</li>
<li id="ca-varlang-2"><a
href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-tw">tw</a>
</li>
<li id="ca-varlang-3"><a
href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-sg">sg</a>
</li>
<li id="ca-varlang-4"><a
href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-hk">hk</a>
</li>
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<div>I'm not sure what they are referring to, but being able to
create things like this makes me wonder if we cuold do something
similar with Campaigns, where each link would go to a different
language version of the page being viewed. There is of course the
method used by Wikipedia, where the links show up under the nav bar to
the left of the content.
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<div> </div>
<div>Opinions? I know that the other language sites are just getting
started, but as usual I'm trying to buid a foundation for future growth.</div>
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<div>Chad</div>
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