Re: [Wikipedia-l] start a new Wikipedia / Wikinews

I'm not suggesting that we balkanize or limit to only locally relevant news...I'm just fine with the idea of en.wikinews.uk being a redirect to the English wikinews site, though that'd be a bit redundant. That's the good thing about wiki as a whole is that it gets over the local bias (the European bias, American bias, etc.) with so many contributors. James -----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jens Ropers Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 3:53 AM To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] start a new Wikipedia / Wikinews On 31 Dec 2004, at 02:14, James R. Johnson wrote: '''Oppose.''' Beware of balkanization. The above proposal would lead to a situation where people would not only just read about the so-called "locally relevant" issues that interest them, but it would probably very soon also lead to the respective wikis mostly containing the locally predominant POV -- which may be sharply at odds with the rest of the world. There are enough global media franchises whose "localized" products sell well enough due to added local slant and preselection. Our mission, I dare to believe, is to transcend these things and reach for higher goals. -- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]] www.ropersonline.com _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l