Discriminatory indeed. I strongly disagree.
If we (luxembourgish wiki, around 10 regulars so far, working on it :) had to go that way to get our own wiki, I'm sure we wouldn't have gotten it, since noone would have found us etc. Now at least we have a chance to create something original in our language (for those who aren't that familiar with lux, we're only about 250.000 native speakers :)).
Caroline aka Briséis.
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:34:59 -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote
Mark Williamson said:
Anyways: I think the best strategy is to tell people who want to
have a >> Wikipedia in their language to go start a wiki somewhere else. If they can >> show that they have a robust community that can support a Wikipedia, then >> they should get an xx.wikipedia.org domain (as well as other >> xx.wikisomething.org stuff). > > I find that horribly discriminatory.
I find it appropriately discriminatory. As a project, the Wikimedia Foundation has to apply some judgement about where to devote its physical resources and the time and effort of its volunteers. If we waste the time and energy of those volunteers for unimportant tasks, they won't come back.
You very well may disagree about what choices the Foundation makes. I'm just saying that it's a really big Internet, and that if you want to create a wiki that no one else wants, you can do that. You don't have to have the Wikimedia Foundation's machines and volunteers to do it.
~ESP
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