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

[Amir E. Aharoni]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Fajro <faigos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Promoting minority languages certainly does not conflict with
Wikimedia's stated objectives.

But it is *not* one of Wikimedia's stated objectives. Wikimedia
provides a platform where minority languages can develop; it's the
people who can write these languages that do the actual development
work.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:19 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> By actively promoting minority languages you lock more people into
> them which is not consistent with trying to empower them.

"Getting empowered" is not equal to "learning English".

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