2008/4/11, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru:
I am not exactly sure why everybody really supports this proposal. I can only say that if it is accepted most of the minor wikipedias which are active on a level of several native speaker contributions per month, will be closed. In this case, I will be the first one to encourage them leaving WMF and migrating to some more friendly server. As an example, I used to be a temporary admin in Lak Wikipedia, which has between 30 and 40 articles, and I am continuing to monitor the project. There are regular contributions from native speakers, but they will probably never localize 100% messages since nobody has ever heard of betawiki, and people are only interested in editing pages.
Well, we all know that people who are only interested in editing pages, and not in localizing the interface are not welcome for Gerard, and since he happens to be the one (or at least one of the few) who makes the decisions, that means bad luck to them.