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.
....
(yes, i know that my japanese is no good)
No, it is good. I am impressed really. (Nihongo jyuzu desu ne) Truely the linguistic diversity of wikipedia is great.
Anyway, I don't mean the discussion in non-English language is meaningless, but I meant it doesn't make sense that the same discussion conducted in more than one language unless the participants are generally bilingual.
You may say Japanese speakers discuss in Japanese. Polish speakers discuss in Polish (Polska?). But if discussions occur in different language, why do we need to put them together? The number doesn't matter.
Do you really believe debate in more than one lanugage makes sense? UseNet, SlashDot, .... I don't see any successful forum dedicated to discussion in more than one language. SlashDot in Japanese is active, but it is seprated from English SlashDot.
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