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This page is part of the Proceedings of Wikimania 2007 (Index of presentations)
Malay, Malaysian and Indonesian languages on Wikipedia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Author | Revo Soekatno (PhD student at Leiden University, The Netherlands) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Track | Wikimedia Community | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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About the author | |||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() He earned an MA degree in Indonesian language and literature from the University of Leiden in 1999. His MA thesis is about "Malay language letters in Javanese script". Currently he is finishing his PhD thesis on Old Javanese literature at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Abstract | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia as well as any Wikimedia Foundation project is based on language and not based on country or nation. However there are some existing projects which appear to be based on nations or countries instead of language. In this occasion I would like to highlight the existence of Malaysian and Indonesian language Wikipedia instead of one common Wikipedia project for both communities. While Malaysian Malay and Indonesian Malay are mutually intelligible (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_language) I deliberately use the term Malaysian instead of Malay as the language used at http://ms.wikipedia.org is actually Malaysian Malay from linguistic point of view. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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