I am sorry Takuya but I didnot understand what you meant there... Do you mean we should stop to try to set a common policy all together, and just all of us go our own way, with policy defined on each wiki separatly ? This could cause trouble in terms of software development if only.
Sorry. I see what I mean was not so clear. Some policities such as NPOV are inalienable. We are buliding a sole international, multilingual encyclopedia not the collection of encyclopedias in different languges.
Sure. We can also claim we don't have exactly the same goals as they were defined on the english wiki; we can claim we don't use the same means; we can claim the community doesnot function the same way. We can claim each wikipedia has a set of individual references. We may. But, still, we share common software, that requires common agreement on some points.
No, the goal should be the same, that is, building free encylopedia, which is under GFDL and edited by everyone.
I have come to see some people fear allowing more automity might undermine the coherence in the whole project of wikipedia. I totally agree with that.
What I don't like is that it seems to me non-English edition tends to replicate the English edition. Non-english editions should not be translation version of English edition. Comma is a good example that we simply applied English system to Japanese edition. And worse, the problem remains unsolved for long time. Something wrong. No?
Oh, I got. Maybe first we should write a conrete mission statement writtin in every language we support. It should not be a translation from mission statement in en wikipedia but multilingual one. Or is there any already? Writing new one should not be a snap because there is already a draft.
Now there is you and Aoineko on the Japanese to speak up, we are quite a bunch from the french, germans and polish are quite present also; there's Elian and Giskart, and others...
Please don't include me. I rather write an article, which is much more fun.
And there is almost none of Chinese, Korean and never talked about Arabic and so on.
You know...guy's stuff...car race...naked women (or men...no offense meant) ...football...beers...that's is not something I understand very well...;-)
Yeah, I understand while some don't care at all, some does much. This is a personal preference rather than debatable subject.