On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 21:09, Yoni Weiden yonidebest@gmail.com wrote:
The question is - shouldn't there be one set of standards for all Wikipedias?
I do think that there should be one set of standards for all languages. But it may be hard to enforce it on an existing community. WMF can try and enforce copyright policy or maybe Biographies of Living People policy, because these issues may have severe legal implications, but it is next to impossible to enforce Notability or Verifiability policies.
Few he-wikipedians care about it, but he.wikipedia did quite well for several years without a clear written policy on any of the following: Living People, Notability, Original Research and Verifiability. All decisions on these matters are made ad hoc. To our friends from en.wikipedia it must seem surreal :)
I think that there should be written policies about those things and i am very slowly working to fix it, but the reality is that writing and correcting articles somehow ends up being more urgent.
I think it is "unfair" that I can read about Simpsons episodes in the English Wikipedia, while those how speak Hebrew cannot.
Everything should be written; not everything has to be written in Wikipedia. If something is not in Wikipedia, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
Until you fix the policies in he.wikipedia to your liking, you can, for example, set up a Hebrew Simpsons/Southpark Wiki in Wikia. It may seem imperfect, but it's much better than nothing.