I agree with this greatly. The only "major" language I can think of
with a more drastic native speaker to second language speaker ratio is
French, whose speakers are more than slightly more regionally
concentrated.
Spanish has a wider reach than either as a native language, but as a
second language it falls short.
Mark
On 07/03/07, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/7/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
When asked where the English Wikipedia fails, it is for me in the other
cultures. However, when you consider the Wikipedians that have a different
mother tongue, there is a group that does their native language and there
are others that work on the English Wikipedia. It could be argued that the
quality of the articles in the English Wikipedia has a relation to the
quality of the Wikipedia in the local language.
I think en.wikipedia does reasonably better than the other wikipedias on
this,
because there are so many non-native speakers that write on it. It is
easier to drift towards a "national" POV with languages that no one speaks
outside a country. It's still not perfect, but it could be worse.
Marco/Cruccone
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