On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:38:36PM -0600, Takuya Murata wrote:
- The meta-wikipedia is not multilingual at all and it
cannot be.
I don't see any reason that the sole wiki site has contents written in several languages. Sure, technologically speaking, meta-wiki is multilingual, but in practice, is it really? What if I started to post Japanese comments, who will reply to them? If I did, I just only increase the bunch of mess. You can't discuss one theme in more than one languages. That is for sure. The discussion
So, there is no reason to have a multilingual wiki site, hence there is no reason to separate English discussion from the English-edition wikipedia.
[en] Because Japanese Wikipedia is small now and there aren't many people who can understand Japanese here, it's not good idea to use Japanese on meta. But there's nothing special about English, and any language understood by sufficient number of Wikipedians is ok. And so will be Japanese in the future.
[jp] Nihongo no wikipedia chiisakute nihongo ga wakaru hito ga wikipedia ni sukosi kara nihongo de meta de kaku ha ii koto ja arimasen Demo eigo wa tokubetu ja arimasen, sosite mai no wikipedian no takusan no gengo ga ii desu. Mirai ni nihongo mo ii desu.
(yes, i know that my japanese is no good)
[pl] Poniewaz japonska Wikipedia jest na razie niewielka i niewiele osob rozumie tu japonski, uzywanie japonskiego na meta nie jest najlepszym pomyslem. Ale nie ma nic specjalnego w angielskim, i kazdy jezyk z wystarczajaca liczba rozumiejacych go osob jest ok. W przyszlosci bedzie to rowniez japonski.