On 10/23/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, though that's not the direction the
"developing world" bit
goes. And the next language to appear is German, which is not nearly
as widely spoken in the developing world.
It is pretty obvious that the background was just cued as a montage
of languages that we have Wikis in, and that it doesn't quite sync
with the dialogue at that point. Totally a small issue. Also funny.
I don't get this complaint at all..
ENGLISH is the first, and Jimmy says it's the largest. Then it shows
the next largest Wikipedia languages, then tapers off to "the
languages of the developing world".
If you want to criticize the video it would probably better to point
out that the most widely spoken languages of the "developing world"
aren't Swahili
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_African_Union#Languages_of_AU…)
and Hindi. especially when it comes to the languages used for
academia...
The languages used for these things in much of the developing world
are quite often English, French, Chinese. ;)
Readers in India, for example, send a lot more traffic to enwp than
the "local languages".