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(a)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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