On 2 March 2016 at 19:58, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
Western countries don't really have a tradition of state-published encyclopedias,
Wales is not a western country?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopaedia_of_Wales
If we had the US Secretary of Defense writing Wikipedia articles about the US Army,
Who exactly do you think writes our articles about US military subjects?
or had employees of the German government running Wikimedia Deutschland,
Both of User:Juergen.friedrich's employers are public universities.