--- "Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz" <kpj(a)gower.pl> wrote:
On 04-11-2002, Poor, Edmund W wrote thusly :
Yes, of course we would like one unified project.
Ed,
Thank you for your reply.
Thank you also.
Since I cannot
read or write Polish at all, and my
French and Spanish are extremely limited, I
have to
rely on bilingual people who choose to write to this
list.
You are not likely to get any impression what is
going on the Polish WP,
and the same with me in case of the
nl.wikipedia.org
and several others.
I just tried to give a few hints of the latest things
that are going on on the fr.wiki.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Embassy
I have rather few ideas of what is really going on on
the en.wiki, as I just drop by from time to time. I
have no idea whatsoever of what is going on in other
places. Very unfortunate.
My point is that there are people in all Wikipedias
(the English as well)
that
1) cannot get a view of what is going on in the
_whole_ project
2) cannot communicate their views, grievances or
proposals
3) cannot share content, data, ideas etc.
4) cannot build _one_ community
it is caused, IMO, by language barriers and lack of
the proper platform (meeting place)
Of course Wikipedia Embassies was really a good
idea. But its
implementation lacks something.
If there is another list I should subscribe to,
please let me know -- or a Wikipedia page.
hum...maybe you should help for the main list to
really become the main list one day, rather than the
en.list. Then you would have another list to register
to :-)). Seriously, IntList is just a partial copy of
this one...
I understand
that some non-English Wikipedia
contributors feel left out by the "main"
English
Wikipedia.
This is just one of the problems and not the most
important one.
Some feel left out. Another problem is the
globalization fear...
Fear of being "engulfed" in the bigger wiki.
For these ones, it results in instinctive rejection of
what has already been decided, whether it was a good
choice or a bad choice, just to make the point : "we
are different, we think different".
Fear of standardization.
Maybe is that not so much being involved in a central
process which is needed ('cause a central process will
orbit around en.wiki for a long time I guess), but
rather to be involved in one of the process of an
organisation with no center.
"Wikipedia News" translated into all our
major
languagues and transmitted
to all major Wikipedias. Ambassadors acting as
translators and editors
also giving resume of any discussions that result
from any of topics.
Well, I don't think wikipedia is a news channel. But I
like the idea of a decentralized process :-)
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