On 13/06/05, David Friedland david@nohat.net wrote:
I have noted an increase of discussion on English Wikipedia in languages other than English lately. For now, I'll forgo naming languages and listing particular offenders here.
Do we have a policy on this? Should we?
I don't see a need for a policy. It's a wiki, so anyone is free to add translations, or even replace the original text with English.
I regularly leave messages on talk pages and user talk pages in English on the non-English wikis (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_MediaWiki:Extlink_sample or http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:PiaCarrot#Administrator for example). Should I be banned from communicated in those places? Or should people assume good faith rather than assuming distrust and simply ask me to find someone to translate it if they feel a need to read those messages?
Angela.