On 2 March 2016 at 19:58, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Western countries don't really have a tradition of
state-published
encyclopedias,
Wales is not a western country?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopaedia_of_Wales
If we had the US Secretary of Defense
writing Wikipedia articles about the US Army,
Who exactly do you think writes our articles about US military subjects?
or had employees of the
German government running Wikimedia Deutschland,
Both of User:Juergen.friedrich's employers are public universities.