My concern is having multiple wikis for nearly identical languages allows
various povs not to have to collaborate and we are more likely to end up
with difficulties like in Croatian.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 07:56 Steven White <koala19890(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
My point is that these "politically-motivated
claims" are already facts on
the ground, whether you like it or not.
Steven White
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*Sent:* Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 8:43 PM
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*Subject:* Re: [Langcom] Wikipedia in Saraiki
Am Mo., 28. Okt. 2019 um 16:08 Uhr schrieb Steven White <
koala19890(a)hotmail.com>gt;:
Well, as I have said many times, the current rule
as written is
problematic, and we have no business rejecting Montenegrin at this point.
No, Langcom has "every business" to do so.
The policy, as written, says *"The committee
does not consider political
differences, since the Wikimedia Foundation's goal is to give every single
person free, unbiased access to the sum of all human knowledge, rather than
information from the viewpoint of individual political communities."* You
have to read the whole sentence there, not just the first phrase. By "not
consider[ing]" political differences, the committee in fact perpetuates the
fact that *existing* projects may already have "the viewpoint of
individual political communities". In these cases, people in minority
communities are tremendously disadvantaged in that they have to overcome
(possibly) hostile political/cultural viewpoints—and may well not be able
to do so.
Your interpretation is exactly the opposite of what is written. The
intention of the policy certainly was not to give every politically
differing group their own wiki.
Thank you for your explanation in your other mail of why it is difficult
to achieve a true NPOV. However, who has claimed that Langcom should NPOVs
on any wiki?
One of the purposes of Langcom is to prevent the multiplication of wikis
due to politically motivated claims that one language is actually two.
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