G'day All
(especially Delirium, Mav, and Jake and Erik whose posts crossed this
one)
Yes. D'acord. Let's take it to the Meta. This is important.
A language is IMO inseperable from its culture. And so IMO, exactly what
constitutes NPOV will also reflect that culture.
There's a lot to wrangle about here...!
Andrew A
At 12:46 AM 4/12/03 -0800, Daniel Mayer wrote:
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)?
Very interesting insight! But since you touch on philosophical issues, I
recommend you copy your post and put in on meta (otherwise this thread
will
get lost in the mailing list archives).
I'll respond there.
--- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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