Hi Mark Imho, it is not acceptable at all. We try to reach people in their mother language or at least a language they handle very well, but we should not provide different content based on any other specificity such as nationality, religion, political view point and such. By definition, since we try to stick to neutrality, the content provided should fit all. If someone want to create a website or a book which is suitable for a specific group of readers, he is free to do so in selecting certain articles or certain part of articles or possibly a mix of articles from different languages. But our goal is to fit everyone and our projects should fit this. As is, articles written in english is not suitable on mi: just as articles in maori would not be acceptable on the english wikipedia. Something which was not clear in your message : Is Robin admin there, or has he tried to apply for adminship ? Are they other editors over there and what do they think ? Ant ------------- Hi all,I would like to ask for some clarification of Wikimedia policy.Is it considered acceptable to have spearate Wikipedias for differentcultures and peoples rather than languages? Are any existingWikipedias considered in this capacity?Robin Patterson has asserted on mi: that rather than a Wikipedia inthe Maori language, it's intended as a Wikipedia for the Maori people,and thus extensive usage of the English language is OK or even good,since only 5% of Maori people are fluent in Maori.Similarly, he wanted to add English content to the Samoan Wikipediabecause "tens of thousands" of Samoans speak English fluently. Itshould be noted that neither of these languages are his nativelanguages. Maori, he lists as a Babel template level of 1 (his Frenchand German are better), yet he is the sole administrator at the MaoriWikipedia. He noted on his Samoan userpage that he knows only ahandful of Samoan words, yet he tried to apply there for sysopanyways.Mark __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l