NSK (nsk2@wikinerds.org) [050109 02:01]:
On Saturday 08 January 2005 16:52, Arkady Rose wrote:
How many articles are there in the German WP? How many in the Spanish one? Could it be that emphasis is according to total number of articles rather than any (potentially mistaken) perceived bias?
The current wikipedia.org portal explains (in English) that the order is according to the number of articles of each Wikipedia. I find no language or cultural discrimination in wikipedia.org, except for the fact that using the English word "articles" and not an icon or image is itself discriminatory.
The English word 'articles' is problematic, I agree - as, more so, are the links "Complete list . Multilingual coordination . Start a Wikipedia in another language".
I'm not sure of an icon that would mean "articles" *blindingly obviously*, which it would need to in order to be less worse than having it in English. Even less so for those three other links. Also, what would you use for the alt= or title= text?
The portal page could do with some links on the left, as per the Monobook skin - specifically to meta, wikimediafoundation and probably to the other projects. If someone who can edit protected pages on meta could please do this ...
- d.