On Jan 27, 2008 2:47 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
And then, please reconsider whether it is so clear that and why en.wikipedia should have any "predominance" on foundation-l. The German Wikipedia is the second largest project and, in relation to its 'rank', it is hardly ever present on foundation-l. Same goes for French Wikipedia etc. etc. Astounding, is it not?
Not really. While non-English posts are welcome, they are understandably rare and responses to them even rarer. The large non-English projects are large enough to get by on their own, and it's easier to do so than to discuss the matters here in English. The English projects could get by on their own if they had to, but it's easy to come here for clarification on certain issues, so why not do so?
Non sequitur... [Let me take the German WP as an example for a large non-English Wikipedia]
"The German Wikipedia is large enough to get by on its own. It doesn't need to appeal to (the) foundation(-l) for every micro-dispute and doesn't need to get Mike's advice on every picture. The English Wikipedia is even larger and would be able to act in the same way. However, it is too lazy or too incapable or whatever, and thus it considers it in order to clutter foundation-l with petty grievances every other day, demanding an ultimate foundation-level verdict on cases which are of no interest for anyone but English Wikipedians".
Granted, it is a bit polemic, but in my opinion it quite accurately reflects your reasoning...
Michael