>I am sorry Takuya but I didnot understand what you
>meant there...
>Do you mean we should stop to try to set a common
>policy all together, and just all of us go our own
>way, with policy defined on each wiki separatly ? This
>could cause trouble in terms of software development
>if only.
Sorry. I see what I mean was not so clear. Some policities
such as NPOV are inalienable. We are buliding a sole
international, multilingual encyclopedia not the collection
of encyclopedias in different languges.
>Sure.
>We can also claim we don't have exactly the same goals
>as they were defined on the english wiki; we can claim
>we don't use the same means; we can claim the
>community doesnot function the same way. We can claim
>each wikipedia has a set of individual references. We
>may.
>But, still, we share common software, that requires
>common agreement on some points.
No, the goal should be the same, that is, building free
encylopedia, which is under GFDL and edited by everyone.
I have come to see some people fear allowing more automity
might undermine the coherence in the whole project of
wikipedia. I totally agree with that.
What I don't like is that it seems to me non-English edition
tends to replicate the English edition. Non-english editions
should not be translation version of English edition. Comma
is a good example that we simply applied English system to
Japanese edition. And worse, the problem remains unsolved
for long time. Something wrong. No?
Oh, I got. Maybe first we should write a conrete mission
statement writtin in every language we support. It should
not be a translation from mission statement in en wikipedia
but multilingual one. Or is there any already? Writing new
one should not be a snap because there is already a draft.
> Now there is you
>and Aoineko on the Japanese to speak up, we are quite
>a bunch from the french, germans and polish are quite
>present also; there's Elian and Giskart, and others...
Please don't include me. I rather write an article, which is
much more fun.
And there is almost none of Chinese, Korean and never talked
about Arabic and so on.
>You know...guy's stuff...car race...naked women (or
>men...no offense meant) ...football...beers...that's
>is not something I understand very well...;-)
Yeah, I understand while some don't care at all, some does
much. This is a personal preference rather than debatable
subject.