On 10/26/02 9:11 AM, "elian" elian@gmx.li wrote:
Mmost arguments in favor or against different solutions seem to have been presented now, but I must say I lost track who wants what. Furthermore it's a useless waste of energy to work on different solutions without knowing which is wanted.
It's never a total waste. But it certainly does make sense to expend effort in the best direction.
Some important considerations that have been lacking in the proposals for new designs: 1) scalability --How does the design handle adding new languages? What if the number of languages is 30? 100? Is the design still fine? Or is the rule that only the top n languages are listed on the front, and the others are at "Other languages"? If that is the case, then isn't that essentially the same problem as the current situation (language minorities not getting identical representation as the majority)? 2) neutrality --The ordering of entries is not neutral. Should it be randomly rearranged every time someone comes to the front page? Should it be by size?
So I invite people to give their vote..
Unfortunately, voting is not really a good way of running things. See Meatball:VotingIsEvil.
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?VotingIsEvil and http://www.shef.ac.uk/~puremath/theorems/gibbard.html