Yann Forget wrote:
As you noted, the choice is a political one, and I'm not sure we ought to be in the business of running political campaigns. Providing resources for anyone to work on a Wikipedia in any language they choose, sure; but to actively promote the use of particular languages over other languages isn't our place.
Well, imposing a foreign language is a political choice, even if it is because this is not enough content in the local language.
I don't see how that's "imposing" anything. As an English speaker, I provide content in English free of charge; people may choose not to use it if they don't like English-language encyclopedias. If speakers of other languages do not provide a similar amount of content, that's not because I imposed anything on them.
Providing tools to people to do what they want with them is non-political. Launching a $30,000 advertising campaign to promote the use of minority languages is overtly political, and something I would strongly oppose.
-Mark