On 7/12/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Where has he said this? The top of http://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal states very clearly that every article should be written in Māori.
Yes, yet he states at http://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:24.251.198.251 (and various places on sm:) that since "English is the first language of at least 80% of people of Maori descent", that English content should and will be kept.
Isn't he referring to content in the Wikipedia namespace there, not articles? Where has Robin added English content to articles?
Have you discussed this with any of the people who have edited this Wikipedia? There are 75 registered users and 8 admins. I'm not aware of any of them having a problem with Robin's approach, which as far as I can tell simply involves adding explanations in English to some pages in the Wikipedia namespace, and a pointer to that explanation from the main page and site notice.
Māori is certainly not the only Wikipedia doing this. http://kn.wikipedia.org/ also has English in its site notice and that project has many native speakers of Kannada and is about to reach 1000 articles. http://gu.wikipedia.org and others do the same. The Arabic village pump contains an English introduction, and the early discussion in the project was mostly English (http://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Project:%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%81&oldid=10984).
Angela