The Cunctator wrote:
I only see a secondary philosophical objection. The objection is based on the argument that first people should be encouraged to contribute to the Eng-lang Wikipedia before others, not from the principle that English is better, but from the principle that "from a strict efficiency point of view, the goal of a comprehensive and neutral encyclopedia would benefit from dealing with issues in only one central article with as many actors as possible debating/working together rather than several different articles with only a couple of persons in each place, even though they are updating their own articles from the other wikis", as Anthere eloquently put it.
I think I am starting to understand. But /"first people should be encouraged to contribute to the Eng-lang Wikipedia before others"/ -- what about all the writers who don't speak English? Doesn't that make the non-en projects sound like the hoby-horses of the linguists among us? "dealing with issues in only one central article" -- that is a good principle. But again: not everyone speaks english.