Hello,
Andrew Lih wrote:
One done in Mandarin will benefit over 1 billion people who simply don't have a good free encyclopedia, in both senses of the word - free as in beer, and free as in freedom. The faster we get there, the better. And I don't think that's a selfish notion.
I understand what you're saying and where you're coming from. But I can't help but see Mark's point, too. To me, you're coming across as, I don't want to let you have your pet project because my pet project benefits more people.
So *I* will be selfish and ask you, so what if it benefits more people? Why should that be my concern just because it is yours? Especially when you're giving me the vibe that you could care less about my pet project? You're asking for my/our help and yet you're dismissive of my/our wants and wishes.
*And* you're assuming that a number of us will be working on the "Mandarin" wikipedia if we don't have a Cantonese/Yue wikipedia to work on, which isn't necessarily true. I, for example, write better and faster in English and I'll probably spend more time on the English wikipedia if I can't help in a Cantonese/Yue one.
little Alex