[Foundation-l] A question for the Wikimania jury

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Mar 31 20:59:46 UTC 2008


Robert Rohde wrote:
> Whatever else you might care about, Spanish is one of the most significant
> languages for Wikimedia projects.  For that matter, it certainly beats out
> Arabic or any other Egypt-centric languages.  (Of course if we were doing
> things on a purely traffic proportional basis, we'd have somewhat more than
> one English-centric conference for each conference in any foriegn language
> locale.)
Of course, if we were to follow a strict continental rotation, having 
one in six Wikimanias in Australasia will almost guarantee that 
proportion of English speaking conferences.  This is already well in 
excess of the proportion of native English-speaking population in the world.

Ec



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