On Jan 27, 2008 5:41 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Who is "them"? They are us, we are you, you are they. The English Wikipedia was the first project, it predates the Foundation, it has the largest community by far, it is the project that gets the most attention, it has the most articles and the highest number of readers. It works in English, as does this list. These things explain far more clearly why Foundation-l gets turfed Wikipedia problems than the idea that en.wiki users are whiney pukes who need rational parents to step in. The anti-English Wikipedia sentiment sometimes found on this list does no one any credit.
Just take a step back and read again the description of this list (it is at http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l for your convenience).
Read also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists#Wikimedia_Foundation_mailing_li... especially the sentence "Posting in languages other than English is welcome, although English is a language most of the audience can understand. Multilingual posts (where the poster repeats the same text in another language) are also welcome."
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?
Michael