Anthere wrote:
Some already ponctually corrected a couple of things.
But generally, they do not believe in Wikipedia neutrality though they
see the efforts to try to be neutral.
You may not expect french people who really write a bad english to go
correct all what is biaised in the english wikipedia.
This is a good question : why did not they fix it ?
It took me three months to dare edit the english wikipedia after I met
it. I feared criticism of my english like hell; And still fear it very
much, as there are regularly unpleasant comments made about it.
Recently, I had to block 2 times an editor who was being extremely rude
with non english people on meta. A place where international people ARE
welcome. When editors rudely handle non english in a place such as meta,
you might guess how nice these editors can be on the english wikipedia
itself.
Amongst french people, I am generally considered quite good in english.
Still, editing in good english is difficult for me and takes a lot of
time. Arguments which start on talk page and last dozens and dozens of
screens put me off. It takes too much time to read it all and try to
understand it all.
Many french scientists read english, because nearly all science is in
english, so of course, it is their main source of information. But most
french scientists do not manage english well enough to become editors.
It needs courage you may not realise. It needs efforts, and it needs to
overcome the comment of some people who do not think we belong there.
So, they look at the article, they may correct a typo, but do not go any
further.
Anthere,
If you find people being rude to non-English people I think you need to
let an admin know so we can leave a message on their talk page warning
them not to make personal attacks. I have personally never seen this,
but if I did the used doing this would get a stern warning from me.
Ta bu shi da yu