[Wikipedia-l] Look Who's Using Wikipedia ... gerardm

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 22:17:17 UTC 2007


On 07/03/07, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think en.wikipedia does reasonably better than the other wikipedias on
> this, because there are so many non-native speakers that write on it. It is
> easier to drift towards a "national" POV with languages that no one speaks
> outside a country. It's still not perfect, but it could be worse.


Indeed. The hard part can be getting people to use and contribute to
the Wikipedia in their own language rather than just using the English
one.


- d.



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