Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:52:55PM -0800, Delirium
wrote:
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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