On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:38:36PM -0600, Takuya Murata
wrote:
> 2. The meta-wikipedia is not multilingual at all
and it
> cannot be.
>
> I don't see any reason that the sole wiki site has
contents
> written in several languages. Sure,
technologically
> speaking, meta-wiki is multilingual, but in practice, is
it
> really? What if I started to post Japanese
comments, who
> will reply to them? If I did, I just only increase the
bunch
> of mess. You can't discuss one theme in more
than one
> languages. That is for sure. The discussion
>
> So, there is no reason to have a multilingual wiki site,
> hence there is no reason to separate English discussion
from
the
English-edition wikipedia.
[en]
Because Japanese Wikipedia is small now and there aren't
many
people who can understand Japanese here, it's not
good idea
to use
Japanese on meta. But there's nothing special about
English,
and any language understood by sufficient number of
Wikipedians is ok.
And so will be Japanese in the future.
....
(yes, i know that my japanese is no good)
No, it is good. I am impressed really. (Nihongo jyuzu desu
ne) Truely the linguistic diversity of wikipedia is great.
Anyway, I don't mean the discussion in non-English language
is meaningless, but I meant it doesn't make sense that the
same discussion conducted in more than one language unless
the participants are generally bilingual.
You may say Japanese speakers discuss in Japanese. Polish
speakers discuss in Polish (Polska?). But if discussions
occur in different language, why do we need to put them
together? The number doesn't matter.
Do you really believe debate in more than one lanugage makes
sense? UseNet, SlashDot, .... I don't see any successful
forum dedicated to discussion in more than one language.
SlashDot in Japanese is active, but it is seprated from
English SlashDot.