Is it considered acceptable to have spearate Wikipedias for different
cultures and peoples rather than languages?
No.
Robin Patterson has asserted on mi: that rather than a Wikipedia in
the Maori language, it's intended as a Wikipedia for the Maori people, and thus extensive usage of the English language is OK or even good, since only 5% of Maori people are fluent in Maori.
Wrong. Maori means Maori language, not Maori people. "English Wikipedia" doesn't mean "Wikipedia for people living in England" but rather "Wikipedia written in English language".
Similarly, he wanted to add English content to the Samoan Wikipedia
because "tens of thousands" of Samoans speak English fluently.
Can somebody please explain to him how Wikipedia works? Or could I please add German content to the Chinese Wikipedia because I don't know Chinese and "tens of thousands" of Chinese speak German?
P.S. If there are no competent Maori or Samoan editors we'd better lock those Wikipedia before further damage is done.
Boris
Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com, wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org schrieb am 08.07.05 02:57:11:
Hi all,
I would like to ask for some clarification of Wikimedia policy.
Is it considered acceptable to have spearate Wikipedias for different cultures and peoples rather than languages? Are any existing Wikipedias considered in this capacity?
Robin Patterson has asserted on mi: that rather than a Wikipedia in the Maori language, it's intended as a Wikipedia for the Maori people, and thus extensive usage of the English language is OK or even good, since only 5% of Maori people are fluent in Maori.
Similarly, he wanted to add English content to the Samoan Wikipedia because "tens of thousands" of Samoans speak English fluently. It should be noted that neither of these languages are his native languages. Maori, he lists as a Babel template level of 1 (his French and German are better), yet he is the sole administrator at the Maori Wikipedia. He noted on his Samoan userpage that he knows only a handful of Samoan words, yet he tried to apply there for sysop anyways.
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