On 9/7/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Stan Shebs wrote:
The conclusion that I take away from this thread is that yes, each wikipedia has its own culture and preferred practices, and it would be extraordinarily useful to have articles describing all that. Even just a translated summary of distinctive policy pages would be helpful to people who are not fluent in the other WP's language. For instance, if I were interested in whether the Russian WP accepts "fair use" images, an English WP article on the Russian WP would probably be a more reliable way to find out than by posting an English-language question on the Russian equivalent of village pump.
The perfect place for all this of course is on Meta :)
I probably agree that this info should be on meta, but the main thing is that it exists. I have often wondered about what kinds of things individual language projects have faced in terms of problems/disputes and how they have resolved them. Or if any initiatives for collaboration, like the Balkan NPOV project, or any others have worked particularly well (or badly). Or if there is anything that the project has figured out that other projects might be interested in (like simplified vs ancient (?) chinese characters, for example). It would be great for this kind of information to get flowing around as much as the foundation stuff that has recently been discussed (on foundation-l). It might be a nice addition to Quarto, for example..
Cormac / en:Cormaggio