[Foundation-l] Vandalism and small wikis

[Sabine Cretella]

> I don't understand you very well here. Many language (mostly 
> European)are having nation marks (English, French, German, Russian, 
> Albanina, Greek, Italian, ....) 
You forgot that German is spoken in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 
Italy all three happily living together on one wiki - and of course: 
there are some differences among these four versions of German, but 
nevertheless they are ONE language.
French is spoken in France, Canada, Switzerland etc. and they work on 
one Wikipedia.
Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium and France and they work on 
one Wikipedia.
Italian is spoken in Italy and Switzerland and they work on one Wikipedia.
English is spoken in Great Britain, USA, Australia, New Zealand etc. and 
they all work on one Wikipedia.

Of course there are slight differences in the usage of certain 
terminology, in writing etc., but they all happily work together. There 
is the possibility, even now, to handle more than one language on a Wiki 
and the smaller the communities of a certain language or variation or 
dialect the more sense it makes to co-operate in one wiki for the simple 
fact that the project has a better chance to survive - anyway the day is 
not all too far that it will become even easier to hav various scripts 
and dialects live on one wiki.

A Wiki project is about co-operation and not separation. You want to be 
different: well, then show it and co-operate instead of allowing for 
political separation. We all have one thing in common: we are human 
beings and as such we have something called intelligence that 
distinguishes us from other living forms ans as such we have the power 
to decide ... the wiki way is co-operation and trying to understand each 
other and not separation.

Languages develop over centuries, sometimes you have vowel shifts and 
even stronger differences within one language ... well that is about 
spoken language ... if you force the writing in a certain different way 
that means that you create an artificial version of a language or you 
write in a dialect.

Again: please co-operate and show that people, even living in different 
nations, are able to work together.

Thank you for your attention and understanding.

Best,

Sabine
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