Cantonese, a major Sinitic language originating in Guangzhou, is the lingua franca in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, and Macau.

The Chinese transcription of "Wiki" is composed of two characters: 維/维, whose ancient sense refers to "ropes or webs connecting objects", and alludes to the Internet; and 基, meaning "foundations of a building", or "fundamental aspects of things in general".

In a vote from August to September 2013 it was decided that the name be changed to "粵文", which literally means "Cantonese inscription".

Using the ISO code instead of current domain has been submitted as a proposal to Wikimedia, but as of yet, no action has been taken to implement this change.

Cantonese flourishes in the southern provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as in Hong Kong and Macau where it is listed as one of their official languages.

Hong Kong owns the largest written Cantonese assets and does not have tight internet censorship.

Starting from a small community, Cantonese Wikipedians have formed a consensus to follow, by default, the policies, guidelines, and customs of the English Wikipedia, wherever they are applicable.

To solve this problem, a JavaScript converter was created and provided for viewing the content in Simplified Chinese characters.