"RS" == Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net writes:
RS> France lost control of Canada in 1763 when it was still a RS> monarchy, so that a lot of ideas that were fundamental to the RS> French Revolution did not automatically become a part of RS> Canadian thinking. That alone can make a single translation RS> impossible.
Oh, _come now_. The English-speaking countries of the world also have very different histories, and we don't have forks of en.w.o. for each such country.
Diversity of opinion *within* national boundaries is going to be about the same as diversity of opinion *across* national boundaries. If Wikipedians can develop the skills to overcome the first, we can apply those same skills to overcome the second.
I don't think there's any Wiki project out there that can afford to turn away editors who can make a contribution just because of their postal address. Any project like Wikipedia needs all the help it can get.
Vive la différence!
~ESP