[Foundation-l] The status of smaller languages on the Wikimedia Commons

[GerardM]

Hoi,
This seems to be yet another fine mess that the Commons crowd is
getting itself into. The question is when will they learn that they
are serving the other projects and that their good intentions have
resulted in projects NOT adopting Commons because of the fiendly
cooperation as it is perceived.

What do they think they achieve by doing this? Is this in the interest
of the projects? Is this the considered opinion of the Commons
community or is it a solitary excercise? It is indeed a great way of
creating more hostility.

Thanks,
    GerardM


On 5/4/06, folengo at netcourrier.com <folengo at netcourrier.com> wrote:
> Since yesterday, smaller languages have been removed from the multilingual links displayed on the Commons' Main Page. Most removed languages are languages with a smaller Wikipedia community, like Arabic, Indonesian, Welsh, Danish, Korean, Romanian, Russian, Vietnamese, Turkish, but a few larger languages, like Spanish, Japanese or Swedish have been removed too.
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> I cannot spend my time reverting the page, so I ask for your help.
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> The initiator of the change contends that the communities he punishes have not been quick enough to update the page in their language. To this I object that he did not seriously take contact with these communities and ask them in a polite manner to perform the updates he wishes.
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> Do you think imposing smaller languages the same pace as that of the larger ones is fair ?
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> Couldn't we have, like in sports different categories (junior, senior, men, women seldom compete in the same categories in sports)  with expectations and rules differentiated in function of the size of a  language community ?
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> Do you think a regime of the bigger boys on the block punishing the smaller ones is what we need on a Wikimedia project ?
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