On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:24:42AM +0200, Timwi wrote:
Again, the contents of the Wikipedias should be
the same. They should
only be in different languages.
Well, this is perhaps a simplistic way of saying "there should be more cross-article pollenation in paralell among different languages."
To say that there ought be some kind of rule regarding what content actually exists in all of those articles -- in terms that they be unified -- would present serious problems.
Its bad enough people complain now about "bad English" on the en.wiki -- (SIMPLE.WIKIPEIDA people..) It would be equally bad for a non-speaker to get into tiffs with people about the content of their pedias.
Certainly for each language there needs to be a loyalty to GNUFDL -- period. As far as other things, like saying "George Bush's Mother is a Goat" in Arabic... well,. that will have to be sorted out by the academic standards that they can reasonably set there.
Should there be an Arabic article on Salman Rushdie? Certainly. But well not concern ourselves whether that article takes the same slant as it does on the en.wiki... I would strongly disagree with translating all of the various cheezy media articles -- top 100 lists, anime summaries, etc.. to each language. Like anyone could do that anyway.. Were just concerned with the core stuff, and the rest is fluff.
-S-
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