Tarquin wrote:
In terms of material and content, we should consider the audience of all wikipedia languages to be international. (Naturally, in terms of the vocabulary and grammar, we write for competent speakers of the language.)
Yes - of course. But I would add that what passes for an an encyclopedia article in one language - how it is organized and split up - is not necessarily going to be the same between two languages. Even what is included in an encyclopedia vs other works of reference is going to differ between different languages. Some languages have a tradition of having many articles on words, while others have a tradition of segregating articles on words into more minimal entries in dictionaries.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)