|From: elian elian@gmx.li |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org |Date: 22 Feb 2003 05:42:38 +0100 | |Tom Parmenter tompar@world.std.com writes: | |> Doors don't have three handles. I don't think having three language |> lists helps anyone. If I am missing some advantage of having three |> lists, I am sure someone will tell me. | |Doors don't have three handles, that's right. But a house where more than |one family is living, has normally at the front door a number of signs for |all parties living there. | |Wikipedia, at the moment, is maybe best compared to a multifamily |residence, where Mr Smith has ten signs on his door reading: "Mr Miller is |living on the right" "Mr Gates is living over there" and "there is the |apartment of Mrs Williams"... The others have also ten signs, saying the |same. | |I propose to wait with a settlement of the language list problem until a |solution for the wikipedia front page is found. Then the problem will |solve itself. | |greetings, |elian | |_______________________________________________ |Wikipedia-l mailing list |Wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org |http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l |
I'm not objecting to listing the languages. I'm objecting to listing them three times in ways that aren't identical and therefore convey, to my way of thinking, less information than one list would convey.
I'm asking: What is the advantage, if any, of listing 12 wikipedias at the top of the page, the same 12 wikipedias at the bottom, and 28 wikipedias in the middle of the page? That's what I mean by three handles on one door.
Are the 16 "extra" wikipedias in the middle supposed to be any less "real" than the 12 at the top and bottom?
I don't understand why I seem to be coming across like some kind of rude crank on this. I don't mean to. I apologize again to everyone. I have nothing against anyone's language or anyone's wikipedia. I just don't see the point of the redundant, inconsistent information on available languages.
Sincerely and humbly yours,
Tom