[Foundation-l] Vandalism and small wikis

[Ray Saintonge]

Darko Bulatovic wrote:

>Gerard Meijssen wrote:
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>>With your blanket statement that "political background of languages is 
>>undiscussable" you indeed end the discussion. In this you are wrong.
>>
>>The Mapuche people are going to court because the Chilean government and 
>>the Microsoft company insist on a given orthography. The Mapuche live in 
>>Chile and Argentina. This proves very much that the insistence of making 
>>a language a people "owned" by a country is very much not universal. If 
>>your POV was shared by the Wikimedia Foundation there would be a project 
>>specific to US English. By having one English Wikipedia the quality is 
>>much better and the POV of the project is very much more a NEUTRAL POV 
>>than it would otherwise be.
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>Gerard you really make your position on this clear. If you check 
>requirements for ISO you will see that for language code it will need a 
>Government support. So language is political and ethnic question, but 
>you seems that don't have that wide understanding of history of 
>languages. I know the history of my language and that give me quite wide 
>understanding of political background. So please don't be that narrow in 
>understanding.
>
It's the global perspective that counts, not the one from the narrow 
view of one language.  Most languages do not have a one-to-one relation 
with any country.  If you recognize 3,000 languages and only 200 
countries many would be left out.  For the endangered languages a 
country devoted solely to that language would not be viable.

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