Caroline,
congrats on your first 1000 articles in lb:!
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 01:06:07 +0200, Ewen Caroline <caroline(a)www.web.lu> wrote:
Discriminatory indeed. I strongly disagree.
If we (luxembourgish wiki, around 10 regulars so far, working on it :) had
to go that way to get our own wiki, I'm sure we wouldn't have gotten it,
since noone would have found us etc. Now at least we have a chance to create
something original in our language (for those who aren't that familiar with
lux, we're only about 250.000 native speakers :)).
Caroline aka Briséis.
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:34:59 -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote
Mark Williamson said:
> Anyways: I think the best strategy is to tell
people who want to
have a >> Wikipedia in their language to go start a wiki
somewhere
else. If they can >> show that they have a robust community that can
support a Wikipedia, then >> they should get an
xx.wikipedia.org
domain (as well as other >>
xx.wikisomething.org stuff). > > I find
that horribly discriminatory.
I find it appropriately discriminatory. As a project, the Wikimedia
Foundation has to apply some judgement about where to devote its
physical resources and the time and effort of its volunteers. If we
waste the time and energy of those volunteers for unimportant tasks,
they won't come back.
You very well may disagree about what choices the Foundation makes.
I'm just saying that it's a really big Internet, and that if you
want to create a wiki that no one else wants, you can do that. You
don't have to have the Wikimedia Foundation's machines and
volunteers to do it.
~ESP
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