[WikiEN-l] Why voting is evil

[Mark Wagner]

On 4/11/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia at philwelch.net> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2006, at 12:56 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
>
> >> Yes, demographic bias.  As in the bigger region, in population, size,
> >> economy, or familiarity to the majority speakers of the
> >> encyclopedia's
> >> language, gets the primary link.
> >
> > Is this a formal policy, I wonder? Is English Wikipedia only intended
> > for English speakers? I didn't think so.
>
> How else, my friend, are people supposed to read the English
> Wikipedia? If we ever get around to translating en. articles to the
> other language wikis, we can reorganize them there. I'm sure in the
> Russian Wikipedia, the country has priority over the state.

Actually, http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Джорджия appears to be about
the state, while the country is at
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Грузия.

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Mark
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