[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities

[Sam Korn]

On 12/20/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Please, have a look at http://www.wikipedia.org

This is in large part a question of philosophy.  Is en.wikipedia (or
ru.wikipedia, or fr.wikipedia, or ar.wikipedia or... you get the
picture) a project in its own right or merely a section of Wikipedia,
a trans-lingual project?

The answer is, of course, "both".  A compromise must be sought to
manage both the idea of a global project and the specific needs of
individual projects.

> So, rather than saying the complaint is ill-advise, I rather recommand
> that we work together trying to set up a compromise which will be
> acceptable by all parties. Saying "your name is not valid because I can
> not read your language, so you can't edit Wikipedia" is not what I would
> call a compromise.

No-one is actually saying this other than those who are maligning
en.wikipedia.  This thread was started as an en.wp-bash and it has
remained that way, not looking at the issues but rather flinging dirt
at a particular project.

I am sorry, Anthere, that you are doing exactly the same.

-- 
Sam