[Wikipedia-l] non-English Wikipedias

[Yann Forget]

Hi,

> Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> This sort of tangentially raises an issue that's been in the back of my
> mind for a while: to what extent can the non-English Wikipedias be
> expected to reach the same levels of NPOV as the English one?  For a few

Excuse me. I can't agree with that.

Your argumentation assumes that because the contributors of the  English
WP come from "all over the world", it is more NPOV. On my POV, the English
is not more NPOV than others (at least the French one which I know),
because the fact is that there are very few contributors from Arab,
African and Asian coutries. In fact, most of the contributors come from
rich countries and very few from Third World countries.

But that also true for other WP. And that OK as long as you don't pretend
that it is perfectly NPOV. It is NPOV for English contributors from rich
countries. Not exactly the same. ;o)

Regards,
Yann

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