Yes, of course we would like one unified project.
Since I cannot read or write Polish at all, and my French and Spanish are extremely limited, I have to rely on bilingual people who choose to write to this list.
If there is another list I should subscribe to, please let me know -- or a Wikipedia page.
I understand that some non-English Wikipedia contributors feel left out by the "main" English Wikipedia.
Ed Poor
On 04-11-2002, Poor, Edmund W wrote thusly :
Yes, of course we would like one unified project.
Ed, Thank you for your reply.
Since I cannot read or write Polish at all, and my French and Spanish are extremely limited, I have to rely on bilingual people who choose to write to this list.
You are not likely to get any impression what is going on the Polish WP, and the same with me in case of the nl.wikipedia.org and several others. My point is that there are people in all Wikipedias (the English as well) that 1) cannot get a view of what is going on in the _whole_ project 2) cannot communicate their views, grievances or proposals 3) cannot share content, data, ideas etc. 4) cannot build _one_ community it is caused, IMO, by language barriers and lack of the proper platform (meeting place) Of course Wikipedia Embassies was really a good idea. But its implementation lacks something.
If there is another list I should subscribe to, please let me know -- or a Wikipedia page. I understand that some non-English Wikipedia contributors feel left out by the "main" English Wikipedia.
This is just one of the problems and not the most important one.
"Wikipedia News" translated into all our major languagues and transmitted to all major Wikipedias. Ambassadors acting as translators and editors also giving resume of any discussions that result from any of topics.
Best regards, Kpjas.
--- "Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz" kpj@gower.pl wrote:
On 04-11-2002, Poor, Edmund W wrote thusly :
Yes, of course we would like one unified project.
Ed, Thank you for your reply.
Thank you also.
Since I cannot read or write Polish at all, and my
French and Spanish are extremely limited, I have to rely on bilingual people who choose to write to this list. You are not likely to get any impression what is going on the Polish WP, and the same with me in case of the nl.wikipedia.org and several others.
I just tried to give a few hints of the latest things that are going on on the fr.wiki. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Embassy I have rather few ideas of what is really going on on the en.wiki, as I just drop by from time to time. I have no idea whatsoever of what is going on in other places. Very unfortunate.
My point is that there are people in all Wikipedias (the English as well) that
- cannot get a view of what is going on in the
_whole_ project 2) cannot communicate their views, grievances or proposals 3) cannot share content, data, ideas etc. 4) cannot build _one_ community
it is caused, IMO, by language barriers and lack of the proper platform (meeting place) Of course Wikipedia Embassies was really a good idea. But its implementation lacks something.
If there is another list I should subscribe to,
please let me know -- or a Wikipedia page.
hum...maybe you should help for the main list to really become the main list one day, rather than the en.list. Then you would have another list to register to :-)). Seriously, IntList is just a partial copy of this one...
I understand that some non-English Wikipedia
contributors feel left out by the "main" English Wikipedia. This is just one of the problems and not the most important one.
Some feel left out. Another problem is the globalization fear... Fear of being "engulfed" in the bigger wiki.
For these ones, it results in instinctive rejection of what has already been decided, whether it was a good choice or a bad choice, just to make the point : "we are different, we think different".
Fear of standardization.
Maybe is that not so much being involved in a central process which is needed ('cause a central process will orbit around en.wiki for a long time I guess), but rather to be involved in one of the process of an organisation with no center.
"Wikipedia News" translated into all our major languagues and transmitted to all major Wikipedias. Ambassadors acting as translators and editors also giving resume of any discussions that result from any of topics.
Well, I don't think wikipedia is a news channel. But I like the idea of a decentralized process :-)
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