Milos Rancic wrote:
A couple of years passed from the time when I realized that it was my social bias. I think that in 2005 I've started to have this kind of conversations: "Wikipedia is very useful for me!" -- "You mean, Wikipedia in English?" -- "No, Wikipedia in Serbian."
At the Wikipedia Academy conference in Sweden some weeks ago, many of the 100+ participants were librarians or teachers in social sciences, and a smaller number were into natural sciences and technology. All presentations were in Swedish and on the first day's workshops we used the Swedish Wikipedia as our playground. On the second day, one of the presentations was made by an astronomer, Dainis Dravins, who talked about his experience from letting undergraduate college students do their project presentations either as posters or as Wikipedia articles.
This picture is from his lecture, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:LA2_Wikipedia_Academy_2008_lecture_b...
Only after a while did it become apparent that he was talking of the English Wikipedia. Some surprised librarian asked "are you now talking of the English Wikipedia?" His answer was something like "yes, the Swedish is almost completely useless" (for advanced astronomy). In the undergraduate astronomy classes he was teaching, all literature is in English. This seemed like an unknown planet to the Swedish librarians. And I guess that their surprise came as an equal surprise to the astronomer.
I think one of the greatest values of Wikipedia Academy is when the attendees get to see each other's reactions to Wikipedia.