[Foundation-l] The status of smaller languages on the Wikimedia Commons

[folengo at netcourrier.com]

Since yesterday, smaller languages have been removed from the multilingual links displayed on the Commons' Main Page. Most removed languages are languages with a smaller Wikipedia community, like Arabic, Indonesian, Welsh, Danish, Korean, Romanian, Russian, Vietnamese, Turkish, but a few larger languages, like Spanish, Japanese or Swedish have been removed too.

I cannot spend my time reverting the page, so I ask for your help.

The initiator of the change contends that the communities he punishes have not been quick enough to update the page in their language. To this I object that he did not seriously take contact with these communities and ask them in a polite manner to perform the updates he wishes.

Do you think imposing smaller languages the same pace as that of the larger ones is fair ? 

Couldn't we have, like in sports different categories (junior, senior, men, women seldom compete in the same categories in sports)  with expectations and rules differentiated in function of the size of a  language community ?

Do you think a regime of the bigger boys on the block punishing the smaller ones is what we need on a Wikimedia project ?