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

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/12/1 Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com>:
> 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.

It doesn't seem that anyone does...