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

[Arbeo M]

That tiny '+...' link for "all languages" is not ideal either.

Arbeo


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.
>
> I cannot spend my time reverting the page, so I ask for your help.
>
> 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.
>
> Do you think imposing smaller languages the same pace as that of the
> larger ones is fair ?
>
> 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 ?
>
> 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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