On 10/23/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, It is in the in the way we present the Wikimedia Foundation; in interviews and in presentations the English language Wikipedia dominates. When something is done in the English Wikipedia it is news. Something of equal relevance in another project is not. When you consider the massive improvements that have happened in Wiktionary ... Nobody knows, seems to care. This is the pattern. When people discuss technical developments it does not happen when it is not of relevance for the English Wikipedia. Who cares that there is no language file in MediaWiki for a fifth of the languages we say MediaWiki supports ?
I've noticed something else related to this that I found disturbing. When Jimbo describes Wikia he says "Wikipedia is the encyclopedia and Wikia is all the rest of the library." Isn't the rest of the library Wiktionary, and Wikinews, and Wikibooks, and Wikiversity, etc?
At the same time, though, the English language Wikipedia is by far the most successful project. Of course it's going to dominate interviews and presentations and news and discussions. These are things the foundation couldn't control even if it wanted to. And surely the English language Wikipedia generates the most revenue. As a result, shouldn't it be entitled to spend an equivalent portion of that revenue?