[WikiEN-l] Re: Audience : was Re: pictures of genetalia
Anthere
anthere8 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 13 18:21:10 UTC 2004
I agree with what Tarquin, Charles, Erik said.
And we should not think "culture", just language.
Those who share a language do not necessarily share a same culture.
Organising information to reflect the most proeminent culture among
those using a specific language is not a very good idea.
Though admitedly, by default that happen, because the editors of that
proeminent culture are more numerous. It is not because it happens that
it should be a goal.
Daniel Mayer a écrit:
> Anthere wrote:
>>I guess we will have both to see that we are not
>>writing for the same audience. As long as you
>>accept that some do not recognise these notions
>>of *primary* and *secondary* as valid, while others
>>do, that is fine.
>
>
> This whole discussion was more academic than practical since things naturally
> develop toward what I described unless unnatural force is applied to direct
> things down another path (which does happen for individual articles but on
> the whole it is not a very significant force).
>
> Those of us who speak more than one language, however, should remember that
> there are different notions of how to organize information in different
> languages. They should therefore not just assume that the way they do things
> in their primary language is necessarily transferable in other languages they
> may know.
>
> This is one thing that I have learned while working on Wikipedia.
>
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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