Chad Perrin:
Rather than being "bold", as you suggest,
I'd recommend that we simply
be "true" -- true to the purpose for which, and the principles on which,
Wikipedia was created.
Briefly:
- Can NPOV in the Chinese WP be respected under the conditions as they
are? If not, a principle on which Wikipedia was founded is already being
violated.
- Chinese WN is not being launched under the same conditions as other
WN. As such, an intervention has already been made. In any case, "you
cannot not communicate"; through action or inaction, you cannot avoid
sending a signal to the Chinese community. We have to carefully observe
what the effects of this signal are going to be.
- In general, a report from or survey of the Chinese Wikipedia community
on NPOV and censorship issues would be very helpful.
Erik