[Wikipedia-l] The Wikpedia family and the Spanish reunification effort)

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Daniel Mayer wrote:

>Yep - Edgar's perception is unfortunate but ever since we started talking 
>about reunification I have come to see that this view is also /completely/ 
>understandable (especially for people who equate the English language with 
>American cultural imperialism - which seems to be increasingly common among 
>non-English speakers in the world); 
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Would it help if I complain loudly about American cultural imperialism, 
as a British, English-speaking Wikipedian? ;-)

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>I would like all the different language Wikipedias to be a family where the 
>non-profit Wikipedia Foundation is the symbolic mother and the different 
>language Wikipedias are symbolic siblings. In my estimation that would then 
>make Jimbo the symbolic father (in the same way Linus Torvalds is the 
>symbolic father of Linux) since he was the person who thought of the crazy 
>idea of having a free as in Libre encyclopedia 
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cool :-)

Another important thing is Meta-W becoming multilingual . That's started 
to happen: french , esperanto, dutch, etc versions of the main page 
there are now available.