On 6/8/06, John Lee johnleemk@gawab.com wrote:
Eh? I've seen lots of Indian editors around, and the Indian community is very active.
I was hoping someone would say that. Anyway I'm obviously just not in the right areas. I love the different flavours of English that you see. I've been working a bit on [[Comparison between cricket and baseball]] and in the process been reading lots of articles on baseball (written almost exclusively by Americans I think) and cricket (mostly Australians and Brits, though some Indians, Pakistanis etc). The difference is striking, even if I can't put my finger on it. Similarly when I once found myself reading some of the articles about the Singapore MRT system.
That's all stuff essentially written by locals. Working on articles about French topics is very different - it's mostly either expats like me, or French people wanting to share their knowledge with the Anglophone world.
Which I suppose all leads me to think that in places en.wikipedia *does* reflect local cultures, for articles where that makes sense, and for more global topics, it has a more global perspective, or at least a wider one.
Steve