Hello Daniel
You should go to the international mailing list (or register for that matter). I think there are many comments that should lighten the matter to you. Both on the spanish fork and about the french "threat". It will probably answer some of your questions.
--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
I just noticed that in addition to the
interwiki links anyway?). This Espa�ol/Castellano split makes about as much sense as having separate American English and British English wikipedias would.
I don't agree at all with you on this point. Even with a z and s matter, you speak the same language and understand each other. The fork had apparently nothing to do with a castillan and spanish language. The fork seemed to come from a scare upon "english imperialism". Each time I'm on the english wiki, I feel somehow unconfortable. First because it's not easy to get when people are serious or joking, second because there are many points you don't get easily, third because you don't always succeed to polish your own comments as you would do in your language. I am sure you could understand what I mean here. And believe me, it's easy for a non english speaking to feel pushed.
As Brion (?) and others stated it, many of us don't understand english well enough to wander on the meta for example. Even after 10 years learning english.
and something about the fact that Wikipedia is at a �dotcom� address. Then they go on to state, again as fact, that the English wikipedia has an �elite with administrator privileges� who �harasses contributors� and �censure content� and �prohibit editing of certain pages�. Yikes! Do we deserve this?
btw, none of us on the french wiki has any admin privilege. Well, we have to take the time to ask Jimbo. That doesnot seem essential right now, but that's a fact :-) But, as far as I know, we have freedom on all our pages. Thanksfully.
Does it trouble you not it is a .dotcom ??? It troubles some of us.
I know some of us seem to consider forking later on a sort of natural occurrence. Others do not...
As for updating the software, we will finish the mainpage translation this we hopefully (probably as we reach 1000 articles, I am very happy about that). After that, it all relies on others to do the update. Who is taking care of that ?
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