On 12/31/07, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
cheated against who? Are the projects competing with eachother, or working together to the same goal?
This is extremely important question. It is obvious that between a very significant minority and majority of WM contributors are thinking about their project in the light of national pride.
Until this incident, I was always used German WM community as a rare positive example. However, it is very sad to see that things are changing there, too. Of course, I may give a number of negative examples, but it is not constructive.
WM community is not (yet?) able to remove those problems as they are a part of much wider relations between humans. But, we may find a way how to deal with them. (Any idea?)
But, we shouldn't lie ourselves that such things are not exist. Actually, in a lot of examples, they are a very important why some Wikipedia exists or why some Wikipedia is good.