But what guarantee do you have that e.g. the German Wikipedia is
"doing
things the wikipedia way"? And what would you do if you knew we
aren't?
[...] Then, I would remove their sysop privileges for abuse.
Okay, but if the problem aren't the sysops, but the users? A tendentious Wikipedia would attract tendentious users, and after some time it would be a very big effort, if not impossible to find enough motivated people to neutralize the articles. Maybe we would have to abandon it and start a new one.
Okay, this is a worst case scenario, and I'm only writing this to emphasize the importance of taking care for new Wikipedias.
Maybe when a new Wikipedia as starting, and we don't have enough speakers to keep an eye on it, we should place an ad in a science magazine of that language, or make a few anouncements in usenet.
Kurt