[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, a world without borders with borders?

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Thanks geni

but this raises more questions...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Other_Wikimedia_projects
that section states that "some projects never accept fair use"
that seems contradictory to what geni just said. Is that because there has
been legal trouble in the past? Or to prevent trouble in the future? It
seems odd to me that on the same website/domain there are different image
use policies.


As for the low quality content on NL, i agree that EN was conceived a couple
of years earlier, but the Dutch wiki has over 300k articles, that's a number
that suggests a large userbase, and high quality. But as i demonstrated, an
article about the most famous scientist of the last 100 years cites 0
sources. I believe that is wrong. On the Dutch wiki the image use policy is
enforced with vigor, but the "citing references" issue is hardly addressed.
I think that is wrong.
I agree that Jimbo can't interfere with every wiki in every language, -but-
the Dutch wiki is in the top 10 of wikis in size. And i believe that on
other large wikis the same issue applies. The German wiki is second in size,
and has only 3 references in the article about Einstein.
Wouldn't it be reasonable is there was something of a rapporteur to the
board for the larger wikis, so that at least the top 10 wikis look generally
the same? The Dutch wiki gets a fair amount of press coverage, it would be a
shame if it were negative press, would't it?

As for NPOV, I have seen more examples of the sort on various articles, even
about animals. Some articles echo a sort of "Greenpeace" sound, whether it
be deliberate or not. The Dutch wiki also has no template for "this article
is written like an advertisement". Not because they had no time to make one,
but because for some reason, they have no desire for it.

My question, can, and is it desirable, that Jimbo or some other official
intervenes?
Or is citing references only vital in the English wiki? I tend to look at
the English wiki before looking at the Dutch one, for this very reason, the
quality is so low on many Dutch articles, and sometimes the facts differ
substantially from the English articles, as if the author did not compare or
check his facts. Do we want other language wikis to be inferior because they
are not under strict regulations?

Shoombooly