In a message dated 9/4/2006 7:49:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dgerard@gmail.com writes:
It'll be amusing when US contributors are a minority on en:, they'll find out how UK contributors sometimes feel ;-p
The real problem is the possibility of English-as-a-second-language speakers (or third or fourth language) becoming a majority of users on en.wiki and the impact that this would have on the basic quality of writing. It has already becoming an issue in some areas of content related to India, where the prose requires inordinate cleanup just to make it legible.
To be clear, I am *not* saying that these contributions should be discouraged--only that they come at some cost.
Danny (who has already spent some time adding spaces after punctuation)
On 04/09/06, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
The real problem is the possibility of English-as-a-second-language speakers (or third or fourth language) becoming a majority of users on en.wiki and the impact that this would have on the basic quality of writing. It has already becoming an issue in some areas of content related to India, where the prose requires inordinate cleanup just to make it legible. To be clear, I am *not* saying that these contributions should be discouraged--only that they come at some cost.
Sounds like something for a specialised cleanup crew. The thing that makes cleanup really horrible is when the articles are badly structured as well - are these at least usable articles with only grammar cleanup?
- d.
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