Optim wrote:

There is no discrimination between Native and Non-Native speakers. Let's get rid of discriminations.

There is no discrimination. It is a matter of information organization and focus, which means that an encyclopedia in one language is not really the same thing as an encyclopedia in another language. So people who are not native speakers should respect the traditions of the second language they may be writing in. If they don't then the resulting articles will only be maximally useful to people who happen to have the same primary language as themselves. Cross pollination is nice and a good thing, but can only be taken so far.

For example, if I spoke French as a second language, I would not insist that a textbook written in French follow standards of focus and organization that are common in English textbooks. To do so would make the French textbook less useful to most French speakers (except those whose primary language is English). Also, if every combination of primary/secondary language audience were written to, then the textbook would be huge and not be very useful to any audience. See what I mean?

But since we are a wiki whose content is created by volunteers (most of whom who are native speakers), these rough edges will get ironed out very naturally in time - if left alone. So the point is really moot (and is more of a background effect to larger differences in personal likes and dislikes of information organization - those get ironed out in time as well). But it is still an important point because we *could* form policies that work against this natural inclination. That, IMO, would be a very bad thing.

But having Wikipedias in different languages helps to ensure that each is maximally useful to their readers.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)