[Wikipedia-l] non-English Wikipedias

Daniel Mayer maveric149 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 4 08:46:11 UTC 2003


Delirium wrote:
>So I guess my question is: do people think it is likely that 
>Wikipedias in languages that are spoken almost exclusively 
>by people of one particular national background can ever 
>hope to achieve anything even remotely resembling the 
>NPOV on the Wikipedias in languages that are spoken by a 
>wide range of people?  Is having contributors from a wide  
>range of backgrounds a necessary prerequisite for NPOV 
>(as I suggest)? 

Very interesting insight! But since you touch on philosophical issues, I 
recommend you copy your post and put in on meta (otherwise this thread will 
get lost in the mailing list archives). 

I'll respond there. 

--- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)




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