On 9/7/05, Alphax <alphasigmax(a)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