[Foundation-l] en.WP dysfunction (was: A letter to Wikipedia collides with the non-free content policies)

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 13:47:28 UTC 2008


> And then, please reconsider whether it is so clear that and why
> en.wikipedia should have any "predominance" on foundation-l. The
> German Wikipedia is the second largest project and, in relation to its
> 'rank', it is hardly ever present on foundation-l. Same goes for
> French Wikipedia etc. etc.  Astounding, is it not?

Not really. While non-English posts are welcome, they are
understandably rare and responses to them even rarer. The large
non-English projects are large enough to get by on their own, and it's
easier to do so than to discuss the matters here in English. The
English projects could get by on their own if they had to, but it's
easy to come here for clarification on certain issues, so why not do
so? Smaller projects sometimes can't get by on their own, and have no
choice but to come here.

It makes perfect sense that foundation-l is dominated by English
projects with most of the rest being from small projects (in addition
to the stuff concerning all projects, of course).



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