[Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

[geni]

2008/12/1 Fajro <faigos at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:08 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> No. You can argue for the tolerance of minority languages but actively
>> promoting them conflicts with Wikimedia's stated objectives.
>
> How?
>
> Do you edit wikipedia to give "Free Access To All Human Knowledge"
> only to the educated elite?

"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
people around the world " first line of the mission statement. By
actively promoting minority languages you lock more people into them
which is not consistent with trying to empower them.

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geni