[Wikipedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia

[tarquin]

Khendon wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:15:30AM +0100, tarquin wrote:
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>>>1. Why can't we just talk to them (EL) in English? I'm pretty sure 
>>>most of the people speak at least limited English (would be hard being 
>>>on the Internet otherwise;) Just say "sorry, my Spanish isn't good 
>>>enough for that". 
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>>That is a very US-centric  attitute (or English-centric, your pick).
>>There are whole swathes of the internet which don't speak English.
>>And you've inadvertently demonstrated one of the reasons they split from 
>>the main Wikipedia site.
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>Well, *one* of the two groups is going to have to speak the other's
>language. Why not use English as the common language?
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Then by the same argument, why not use Spanish?
I think it was Brion who suggested we use Esperanto. That would be the 
fairest option.

we're *really* not going to encourage them back to the Wikipedia with a 
"Brit abroad" attitude.
I get the impression that that is the principal source of tension 
between en: and the other language 'pedias.