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

[Jimmy Wales]

geni wrote:
> 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.

I do not share geni's views at all.