Yann Forget wrote:
As you noted,
the choice is a political one, and I'm not sure we ought
to be in the business of running political campaigns. Providing
resources for anyone to work on a Wikipedia in any language they choose,
sure; but to actively promote the use of particular languages over other
languages isn't our place.
Well, imposing a foreign language is a political choice, even if it is because
this is not enough content in the local language.
I don't see how that's "imposing" anything. As an English
speaker, I
provide content in English free of charge; people may choose not to use
it if they don't like English-language encyclopedias. If speakers of
other languages do not provide a similar amount of content, that's not
because I imposed anything on them.
Providing tools to people to do what they want with them is
non-political. Launching a $30,000 advertising campaign to promote the
use of minority languages is overtly political, and something I would
strongly oppose.
-Mark