Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
It's you who is mistaken. It's not about any individual's control over Hebrew Wikipedia, but about all Hebrew Wikipedians' control over it.
Well, that's wrong too. That way lies segregation, not integration.
If you aren't Hebrew Wikipedian, why should you have anything to say about that ?
For the same reason that writers on the Hebrew Wikipedia are welcome to get involved on this discussion list, or on any other wikipedia for that matter.
Second, it's many individual Wikipedias, not one Wikipedia with many languages, and it's going to stay that way.
It is many wikipedias in different languages. That still means we should present a unified face to the world. We are regrettably partitioned into many groups which have trouble intercommunicating. (perhaps we should all learn Esperanto?)
It may seem like a small thing, but if they all look the same, then they all look like home to me, even if I don't understand the words -- and I hope everyone else can feel that way too :-) It saddens me every time I see the da: and the sv: logos that have the country flags overlaid -- it feels like stepping abroad (and Wikipedia should not be about nations, only languages). I go to the Japanese pedia and it's just like walking into a different room where people are talking in a different language.
-- tarquin