On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:16:20AM -0800, Delirium wrote:
To get decently towards NPOV, I think a Wikipedia needs contributors from as many countries and backgrounds as possible. To my knowledge, the English Wikipedia has contributors from: the United States, the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Greece, Italy, Russia, the Ukraine, Spain, Mexico, Israel, Brazil, Australia, India, China (incl. Hong Kong), Japan, South Korea, Ireland, Nepal, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Portugal, and likely a lot of others I've forgotten to list.
I'm skeptical that any other Wikipedias come even close to this, and I'm also skeptical that many of them ever will: what are the chances that people from each of the above countries will ever participate in, say, the Hindi Wikipedia?
I bet that Esperanto speaker are more wide-spread on the globe than English. Also Esperanto seems to have a strong community open for new idea like Wikipedia.
ciao, tom