[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English

[Andrew Gray]

On 19/09/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does your e-mail have a point?

I would guess this is the same person who ranted at the en: Help Desk
yesterday about the issue.

As this rant included (edited highlights) -

"It's bad enough that the British invention of HTML won't let you type
colour correctly in tags, without having the world's largest free
online dictionary purporting to display information in English, but in
fact displaying it in a dialect of English - we've got Wikipedia in
Scots, Wikipedia in Middle English, but when you click on Wikipedia
English, you get spelling errors, sloppy grammar and garbled syntax;
in short the American dialect of English, trying to hijack the term
English. ... I want Wikipedia "English" to be partitioned in to
"English" and "American". We can copy and paste and run spellcheck to
iron out the mangled American illiteracy, no worries. ... It is a
scandal to actively promote the butchering of English..."

- I think we can safely consider this as not providing a great deal of
useful insight into our language policy :-)

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk