Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:52:55PM -0800, Delirium wrote: [...]
So I guess my question is: do people think it is likely that Wikipedias in languages that are spoken almost exclusively by people of one particular national background can ever hope to achieve anything even remotely resembling the NPOV on the Wikipedias in languages that are spoken by a wide range of people? Is having contributors from a wide range of backgrounds a necessary prerequisite for NPOV (as I suggest)?
But the English Wikipedia isn't NPOV at all ! Especially on anything related to Middle East conflict, it almost invariantly has Israeli bias, probably because of relatively large number of American Jewish contributors, compared to hardly any Arab contributors.
That's quite possibly true; I wasn't arguing the English Wikipedia is perfect on all topics, or anything remotely close to that. I do think though, that if any Wikipedia is going to succeed in creating something approaching a NPOV description of the Middle East conflict, the English Wikipedia has a *much* better chance of doing so than, say, either the Hebrew or Arabic Wikipedias do.
-Mark