[Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

[Ting Chen]

Hello Milos,

reading your mail below I am wondering why your reaction on my first 
mail was so aggressive. It looks to me as if your consideration is not 
that far away from mine. Especially I wrote in my suggestion that first 
of all the project must have a very clearly defined scope and audiance, 
second that it should have a more rigid editorial and anti-vandal 
mechanism and third that we need more research.

Greetings
Ting

Milos Rancic wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> The difference was that Wikipedia was not made for young people.
>>
>> If I run a social group for adults and there are issues with children
>> who visit, I can blame it on their parents and say they should control
>> them better. If I run a social group for children, I'm now a childcare
>> provider and have a greater degree of responsibility.
>>     
>
> It is not [just] about blaming each other. It is about underestimating
> child capacities and playing with their trust.
>
> Child is perfectly able to recognize what is "for adults" and what is
> "for children": everything not marked ("marked" in various ways) as
> "for children" is for adults. And they are able to treat differently
> those two types of phenomena. "For adults" is not safe, while "for
> children" is safe. Depending on circumstances, "for children"
> phenomena could be also boring to them, but safe.
>
> And if we want to make a project in which children will trust as safe,
> we have much higher responsibility than we have for creating any other
> project not marked as a "project for children".
>
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Ting

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