[Wikipedia-l] non-English Wikipedias

[Yann Forget]

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Hi,

Le Thursday 04 December 2003 21:50, Tomasz Wegrzanowski a écrit :

> > 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)?
>
> But the English Wikipedia isn't NPOV at all !
> Especially on anything related to Middle East conflict, it almost
> invariantly has Israeli bias, probably because of relatively large number
> of American Jewish contributors, compared to hardly any Arab contributors.

Yes, that what I mean. And there are other subjects with the same situation.

Yann

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