[9][10] At the time of creation there was no ISO 639 code for Southern Min, so the founders decided to use "zh-min-nan", which had been registered as an IETF language tag.

The scholar Henning Klöter wrote, "If we take the Holopedia not only as a sign of the vitality of alphabetically written Taiwanese, it turns out that today, like 20 years ago, governmental and non-governmental language planners still do not pull together, in terms of both intensity and substance.

Dong said that the expansion of Southern Min Wikipedia was owing to the Taiwan government and linguistic groups' standardization efforts for the language.

The first reason was political in that Min Nan speakers yearned for a singular identity that would substantially distinguish themselves from Mandarin Chinese.

Dong concluded, "to reach a larger readership, a phonetic writing system does seem to have its advantage given the high internal homogeneity among the major Southern Min speaker communities".