Well, I agree with most of this, but I'm not sure if it's intended to be in response to my previous post.
And no, I think that the vast majority of Wikipedians, of any language, are unaware of the pillars.
Mark
On 01/02/07, Berto 'd Sera albertoserra@ukr.net wrote:
Hi Mark,
I will not comment on Ukr/Ru/Ru-sib. I will rather act in silence and take my time to make sure that violations are prosecuted as such. It's my close geographical neighborhood and I do care for places and people I love :) I'm from the Alps, we are slooow but extremely methodical.
More in general, we all have political ideas/illusions/dreams/principles etc. It's a human right to have them. But there are fields in which they are NOT acceptable as a source for decision making. Anyone being a cop cannot serve a guy better than another because they share a religious or political belief. Same is for doctors, for language operators, soldiers, encyclopedia editors, government officers, etc.
Whenever you deal with something that encompasses a whole society as such, politics are OFFLIMITS. Failure to understand this means you deal with a dictatorship. It means that nothing changed. People only adapted their definition of "enemy of the people" to the current Czar. Now they deport communists, Russians and Germans, and that's as far as the "democratic novelty" goes. Sorry, I ain't gonna take it.
They are free to do so in reality if they wish, but they are not free to do it within the WMF, because there is a thing called "pillars". Pillars are the reason why people donate money, those very money that pay for everybody's servers and bandwidth. Failure to respect the pillars is FRAUD TO DONORS. This must be extremely clear.
BTW, how many editions did even bother translating those damn pillars?? How many non-english wikipedians EVEN JUST KNOW that they exist? It's hundreds of thousands of articles, each of which may happily say that there never was any holocaust, that the earth is flat, that candidate Y never made any fraud and candidate G is the sole responsible for everything from Adam and Eve to climate warming, or that Marlon Brando is the Roman Pope...
So what? Who will check anyway? Us stupid westerners don't read Cyrillic, right? Nope guys, some of us morons actually do... It's not a matter of whether one's opinions are right or wrong; it's just that THIS IS NO PLACE FOR NOBODY'S POLITICAL DELIRIUM! Full stop.
Bèrto 'd Sèra Personagi dl'ann 2006 për l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojàotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
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