...Again, I personally don't care.
But while the idea of an article about (FYRO) Macedonia might anger some Greeks, it fits directly in to Wikipedia according to rules, no doubt about it. Along the same lines, we have articles about autofellatio, holocaust denial, neonaziism, etc.
In those cases, there are only two clear options: Either the articles exist, or they don't.
In this case, however, there are many potential solutions to the same problem, so I think it's worth adding to an overall evaluation of each option whether or not it is likely to repell people from any certain country or region from using or editing Wikipedia in the future.
Although ideally, we should be able to do whatever is most logical for any given situation, the human component is something that if left unconsidered can have a devastating effect on any project.
Mark
On 12/03/06, Andreas Vilén andreas.vilen@gmail.com wrote:
So? For example the entire concept of an article about the country of Macedonia angers many Greek people. Since when was the fact that someone could get angry about something an argument not to do something?
/Andreas
On 3/13/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
That's already been proposed, and it seems like a good idea.
The only troubling part of your proposal is that data could be stored in the database in Cyrillic, which I think might anger some Romanians.
Mark
On 12/03/06, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Caroline Ford wrote:
There seems to be no way that Romanians will tolerate cyrillic language (even via a software setting) on their wikipedia.
Caroline/secretlondon
Okay, then.
Let the ro: and mo: Wikipedias be interfaces to the same underlying data, then but let the Wikipedia be a Cyrillic-free zone, both in terms of content and interface, and mo: Wikipedia be the same as ro:, only with interface and content optionally presented in Cyrillic, with two-way transliteration for editing, as per the Chinese and Serbian Wikipedias.
-- Neil
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