On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:17:20 +0800, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:06:20 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Why not instead tell people to focus their energy on English, since there are more English speakers?
Because as smart as I thought you were, you still don't see recognize the problem of having less than 20,000 articles for the most widely spoken language in the world.
"as smart as I thought you were" - am I supposed to interpret that non-maliciously?
And I still don't see the problem with having less than 20k articles. Every Wikipedia will always have less than _______ articles, and will you always be worrying about that? When zh.wikipedia has 1 trillion articles, will you be worrying that it doesn't have two trillion?
Again, it is extremely selfish of you to do this. And supposedly, if second-language speakers are included for both English and Chinese, and Chinese is limited to those literate in Baihua (ie, excluding illiterates), English exceeds Chinese by far.
And since you consistently assail the character of those who disagree with you, and maliciously reinterpret peoples' comments, I'm done with with you.
Again, I don't see how your comments can be interpreted as anything other than telling people "quit agitating for your own Wikipedia. edit ours instead!!!" which is very selfish and inconsiderate of others.
And if you're done with me, bear in mind that that does not mean I will no longer respond to YOUR messages.
Mark