On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Fajro faigos@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:08 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
No. You can argue for the tolerance of minority languages but actively promoting them conflicts with Wikimedia's stated objectives.
How?
Do you edit wikipedia to give "Free Access To All Human Knowledge" only to the educated elite?
Promoting minority languages certainly does not conflict with Wikimedia's stated objectives.
But it is *not* one of Wikimedia's stated objectives. Wikimedia provides a platform where minority languages can develop; it's the people who can write these languages that do the actual development work.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:19 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
By actively promoting minority languages you lock more people into them which is not consistent with trying to empower them.
"Getting empowered" is not equal to "learning English".