On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia-inc.com> wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
It doesn't seem that anyone does...
I should add at the same time that I think that it is a good thing for
people to try to learn a relevant global language in addition to their
local language, with the choice depending upon personal context.
In many parts of the world and for many people, English is an excellent
choice of a second language. In other parts of the world (Francophone
Africa for example), French is an excellent choice. Chinese might be
good for some people. Russian for others. Hindi for others. There are
many variables.
Don't forget Esperanto.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Michael Finney <finney.md(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Jimbo:
Thank you for your comments. As a person who manages a small wiki project
and two language forks from it, I found some of the comments very
disturbing... almost frightening that such exist. Your comments re-affirm my
confidence in the Wikimedia Foundation and its purpose.
Some of those comments was openly promoting ethnocide and linguistic
discrimination and aparently nobody noticed it.
I knew that wikimedia was a little anglocentric, but this is too much.
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