On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Anthere wrote:
--- Andre Engels engels@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Tomos at Wikipedia wrote:
- English-centrism
I would say that if at all possible, within the
parameters of trying
to come up with a better and more reasonable
counting system, that any
changes should benefit (if possible!) the
non-English wikipedias more
than the English wikipedia.
I disagree. We should try to get the greatest benefit for ALL Wikipedias. What we should try to avoid is changes that benefit the English one but are disadvantageous to (some of) the others, but if we have to options, one of which benefits the English a lot and the others somewhat, and the other the English a little bit and the others somewhat, then the first one is preferable.
I disagree. The option 1 is more often chosen because of the weight of people, so that is a fact, but I see not why it would be the *best* option. It might be the best choice for english, not for others. I am not even sure it is the best choice at all.
If it's better for English, and as good for the others, it's better in my opinion. I consider that self-evident. Or would you prefer that we intentionally cripple the English Wikipedia to get more people at the other languages?
Andre Engels