[Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

[Fred Bauder]

> Hello,
>
> In fact, I cannot remember that I have ever met in Germany or the
> Netherlands a Turkish or Moroccan Wikimedian. Maybe there was one, but
> he spoke good German and presented himself as User:Encylco-dude81 so
> that I did not notice the "migration background". :-)
>
> According to the statistics only 0.2% of the page views in Germany go
> to Wikipedia in Turkish, by the way.Turks in Germany belong largely to
> social classes that tend not to read much in an encyclopedia, and when
> they need one for school, they presumably copy their homework from
> Wikipedia in German.
>
> Kind regards
> Ziko
>
> --
> Ziko van Dijk
> The Netherlands
> http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/

My impression is that the Turks in Germany are mostly manual workers. Not
that they are stupid or anything; its more a matter how how they see
themselves. Blacks in America, if in a perverse, self-defeating mode
regard intellectual endeavors such as reading as "White".

Fred Bauder