That tiny '+...' link for "all languages" is not ideal either.
Arbeo
On 5/4/06, folengo(a)netcourrier.com <folengo(a)netcourrier.com> wrote:
Since yesterday, smaller languages have been removed from the multilingual
links displayed on the Commons' Main Page. Most removed languages are
languages with a smaller Wikipedia community, like Arabic, Indonesian,
Welsh, Danish, Korean, Romanian, Russian, Vietnamese, Turkish, but a few
larger languages, like Spanish, Japanese or Swedish have been removed too.
I cannot spend my time reverting the page, so I ask for your help.
The initiator of the change contends that the communities he punishes have
not been quick enough to update the page in their language. To this I object
that he did not seriously take contact with these communities and ask them
in a polite manner to perform the updates he wishes.
Do you think imposing smaller languages the same pace as that of the
larger ones is fair ?
Couldn't we have, like in sports different categories (junior, senior,
men, women seldom compete in the same categories in sports) with
expectations and rules differentiated in function of the size of a language
community ?
Do you think a regime of the bigger boys on the block punishing the
smaller ones is what we need on a Wikimedia project ?
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