On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia-inc.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
It doesn't seem that anyone does...
I should add at the same time that I think that it is a good thing for people to try to learn a relevant global language in addition to their local language, with the choice depending upon personal context.
In many parts of the world and for many people, English is an excellent choice of a second language. In other parts of the world (Francophone Africa for example), French is an excellent choice. Chinese might be good for some people. Russian for others. Hindi for others. There are many variables.
Don't forget Esperanto.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Michael Finney finney.md@gmail.com wrote:
Jimbo: Thank you for your comments. As a person who manages a small wiki project and two language forks from it, I found some of the comments very disturbing... almost frightening that such exist. Your comments re-affirm my confidence in the Wikimedia Foundation and its purpose.
Some of those comments was openly promoting ethnocide and linguistic discrimination and aparently nobody noticed it.
I knew that wikimedia was a little anglocentric, but this is too much.