[Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod at mccme.ru
Fri Aug 27 14:23:17 UTC 2010


> 2) Eurocentrism. Not an accusation to be made lightly, but look at the
> geographic composition of the langcom. 9/13 members currently reside
> in Europe, another is originally from Europe, 2 from Canada and 1 from
> California. Hmm... so the population of Europe is 10% of the Earth's
> population, but (nearly) 100% of the population of the LangCom? This
> is a huge bias and should not be tolerated within an organization such
> as ours which pretends to have an international scope.
> 
> -m.
> 

I guess if 75% of the members were from the US nobody would ever complain.

Europe still has several dozens of languages.

Cheers
Yaroslav





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