--- Rotem Dan rotem_dan@yahoo.com wrote:
I think that reagardless of geographical, national etc. differences on wiki users demographies (that I think has nothing
to
do with anything here anyway). he.wikipedia.org is a complete, (almost) independent site, that has its users and readers, they should be the ones who vote for decisions related to their site, including policy, wiki code, layout, licensing and logo.
Well, here is a problem with the En:wiki policy -- as its applied accross boundaries. Do you agree that the GNU FDL is required also for the he. wiki? How about NPOV?
Its certainly impractical to say that the en:wiki can impose controls upon the he:wiki -- therefore, yes -- the he:wiki is almost fully under the command of its 30 users, and anyone else who can read/write Hebrew and wants to contribte... I agree that the he:wiki deserves a Hebrew logo, layout, etc. and that a Hebrew consensus will be the default --as if non-readers people could monitor everything that goes on. A loyalty to GNU is required.
But all *that is different from saying "Were an island unto ourselves -- we dont have to obey offlander laws like "GNU" or so called "principles" of "professionality," "NPOV", etc... this is simply not the case, (If that is what Dan is saying) regardless of the language or the language gap -- all Wikipedias are a part of Wikipedia.org, (*not en.wikipedia) and as such are commonly steered by consensus..
To facilitat communication, there will be a greater need for open discourse about these issues on the international mailing list, (in whatever language.) Everyone interested in anything other than just their own language should join that list as well No doubt thats whyDan (you) is (are) talking about this. But to say that the language barrier represents something more than what little it is - is a common (and honest) misconception among a great many Wikipedians.
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