[Wikipedia-l] Moving the English Wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org

[Jimmy Wales]

Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
> I am sure Polish Wikipedians would regard it as a big disincentive
> to be reduced to mere translators of English (other languages?)
> articles. I think we have created a relatively small but precious
> Wikipedia with some remarkably good articles.

I think Cunc will gladly take back the word "translation".  I think he was
just speaking loosely there.

The way I see it is that the Wikipedia is one project with many
languages.  The individual language wikipedias are not separate
projects, but part of the large family.  But neither are they merely
_translations_.

We are united by the fundamental goals: NPOV, openness, encyclopedic
writing.

I am opposed to the idea, for example, that an article in Spanish about
the Spanish-American war should be in any way fundamentally different
from an article in English about the same war.  There's no need for
them to be translations of each other, of course.  But they should
contain the same information, and both should be free of bias.

Multilingual people can read both and notice discrepancies and bring
the articles into line with each other.

--Jimbo