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