While I am not so much worried to see a Wikimedia project helping a minority language promotion. I rather am concerned about political view promotion using a Wikimedia project.
In the discussion of Masry Wikipedia, I saw one of the proposers complain the current Arabic Wikipedia uses the ugly language the normal Egyptian cannot bear, ant another Arabic editor pointed out his claim meant that arwiki community had refused to move [[Muhammad Ibn-Abdullah]] to [[The Prophet (May piece be upon him)]] (or precisely its equivalent in Arabic).
I am worry about that unestablished editors who don't share our core principles are let start their Wikipedia whose content may not be understood by anyone else and thus not noticed and corrected their systematic biases.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Muhammad Alsebaey wrote:
However, let me stress again my point, is it the WMF place to take a stand as to accelerate such an adoption of the spoken language as written? I dont think so.
This seems to be the point on which the language committee, as currently constituted, disagrees. I fear it is somewhat run by minority-language-promotion advocates, who are most interested in using Wikimedia to push their pet ideas about how language and society ought to work, shared by few other people.
-Mark
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