On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu wrote:
The point is, it is easier and cheaper to educate people in their language than to force a foreign language on them.
Call me a centrist prick, but I've always thought it would be much more benificial to learn a common language than it is to adapt content to that language.
Either you stick with your home language and get a small Wikipedia without much content, or you learn a common language with vastly more content and fact-checking. You not only loose out on Wikipedia, but a vast majority of the world's knowlege and interaction.
Am I the only one that has a problem with having 100 Wikipedias? Look at the massive effort it takes to just maintain one decent English Wikipedia article. Then multiply that. I see it as a massive duplication of effort (a phrase I seem to use often around here...). Maybe I'm just a self-centered American with a superiority complex.
Someone tell me I'm wrong (I'm serious, if I'm incorrect or being a dick tell me)