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

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 12:16:48 UTC 2006


2006/12/20, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com>:

> No such policy exists, far as I know. If some vigilante group is trying
> to enforce it, they need to be told that Wikipedia and Wikimedia have no
> such restriction.


The policy  does exist, and the vigilante group that tries to enforce this
is quite succesful in doing so, because they have admin rights on
en:wikipedia, so people who do not keep to it get blocked from English
Wikipedia.



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