[WikiEN-l] fundraising

[Phil Sandifer]

On Oct 23, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:

> On 10/23/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My favorite part of the video, btw, is that French is the first
>> language to come up when he identifies the Wikipedias of the
>> developing world.
>
> Since much of Africa speaks it natively, it seems like a completely
> appropriate choice, why wouldn't it be French? Saying that developing
> countries don't speak French is like saying only people from Spain
> speaks Spanish.

Yeah, though that's not the direction the "developing world" bit  
goes. And the next language to appear is German, which is not nearly  
as widely spoken in the developing world.

It is pretty obvious that the background was just cued as a montage  
of languages that we have Wikis in, and that it doesn't quite sync  
with the dialogue at that point. Totally a small issue. Also funny.

-Phil