Ulf Lunde wrote:
I also wanted to say that I agree that gerard Meijssen's point is very important: The wikipedias are indeed culture-bearers for their respective populations, and not just for humanity as a whole!
I disagree that this should be the case, and to the extent that it is, feel it should be corrected. Languages are not culture, although they have connections with it.
If we wanted languages to be identified with culture, then we should split some up, and have a "United States" wikipedia as a culture-bearer for the U.S., a "French Canadian" Wikipedia as a culture-bearer for French-Canadians, and so on. But we don't, and to the extent possible keep these together. In essence, the only reason we have separate Wikipedias at all is because of language barriers---when languages are similar enough to keep together (as with the French spoken in Canada vs. France vs. Algeria), we do so.
Or do people actually seriously think we *should* have separate Wikipedias catering to different cultures?
-Mark