[Foundation-l] Preservation of cultural diversity and minority languages

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On 2/10/08, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> Top posting is not an error it is obvious that you do, when it is how mail
> is best supported in the tooling that you use... Having said that,

I *have* been trolled, and am quite happy to acknowledge taht...


>
> You do not answer the issue. You raised as a point the "swing away from
> comprehensiveness" in a thread about languages and a perceived need for
> concentration. I asked how and where this issue is applicable. I made it
> personal because I do not care for vague rants, I want to know how people
> are prevented from working on one Wikipedia as a consequence of what happens
> in other Wikipedias. This is not intended as a personal attack, it comes
> from a desire to have a practical understanding.


> > > > Please do understand that I for one am of the opinion that for reasons
> > > > of comprehensivity, the english language wikipedia must remain a
> > > > special concern, and for which reason the current swing away from
> > > > an aspiration towards comprehensiveness on the english language
> > > > wikipedia is to me a deeply regrettable developement.


To have a practical understanding of something, it is easier to have the
comment after the thing commented upon...

But that would be only logical if one thought top posting was confusing...



>
> I do not get this understanding from your reply as it is completely
> concentrated on something that happened in one Wikipedia.

My reply is in reference to one Wikipedia only because
my point was about one wikipedia, namely the English language one.
If there was a larger point about other communities, you might have
been rightfully worried I was concentrating only on the english wikipedia,
but as I wasn't you most certainly weren't.

However, to *repair* the affects of top posting, let me repeat your
previous paragraph and go into it in more detail...


> You do not answer the issue. You raised as a point the "swing away from
> comprehensiveness" in a thread about languages and a perceived need for
> concentration. I asked how and where this issue is applicable. I made it
> personal because I do not care for vague rants, I want to know how people
> are prevented from working on one Wikipedia as a consequence of what happens
> in other Wikipedias. This is not intended as a personal attack, it comes
> from a desire to have a practical understanding.

If you want to know why I think this issue is serious, I will say that we want
to *collect* information,and we can do in many language regions so only if
we are willing to do so with that language itself. You may not care for vague
rants, but if you but had the giftie of a mirror, you would be pelted
by at least
one half more than you see yourself.


Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]