2008/12/1 geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>om>:
2008/12/1 Fajro <faigos(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:08 PM, geni
<geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
No. You can argue for the tolerance of minority languages but actively
promoting them conflicts with Wikimedia's stated objectives.
How?
Do you edit wikipedia to give "Free Access To All Human Knowledge"
only to the educated elite?
"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
people around the world " first line of the mission statement. By
actively promoting minority languages you lock more people into them
which is not consistent with trying to empower them.
A curious statement, wich I strongly disagree. Promoting the
development of minority languages means to promote new skills in the
people who talks this languages, to help them to build online content
in this languages, to put knowledge closer to this people, etc. etc,
and all this means to "empower and engage people around the world".
Patricio
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