On 12/20/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Please, have a look at http://www.wikipedia.org
This is in large part a question of philosophy. Is en.wikipedia (or ru.wikipedia, or fr.wikipedia, or ar.wikipedia or... you get the picture) a project in its own right or merely a section of Wikipedia, a trans-lingual project?
The answer is, of course, "both". A compromise must be sought to manage both the idea of a global project and the specific needs of individual projects.
So, rather than saying the complaint is ill-advise, I rather recommand that we work together trying to set up a compromise which will be acceptable by all parties. Saying "your name is not valid because I can not read your language, so you can't edit Wikipedia" is not what I would call a compromise.
No-one is actually saying this other than those who are maligning en.wikipedia. This thread was started as an en.wp-bash and it has remained that way, not looking at the issues but rather flinging dirt at a particular project.
I am sorry, Anthere, that you are doing exactly the same.