[Wikipedia-l] Re: Press release : Logo putschonthe FrenchWikipedia !

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From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com>
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FrenchWikipedia !

> > If NPOV is the same, then we shouldn't have as a goal articles which
> > reflect different biases.
>
> Yes, I do agree with this, but I think that there can be differences
> between article versions, even where both are NPOV.

Your split between backgrounds and interests is maybe helpful to
differentiate two kinds of adaptations that can be done to a given audience.
Take the example of [[Confucius]]. In the en: article, there are explanation
on some key words/concepts (Li, Ren, ...) that will not make so much sense
if purely translated into Chinese, I guess. Here the background differences
change the expression of the topic. So I'm not sure that both article
(en:Confucius and zh:Kongzi) could be expressed the same way, but, imo, they
should dive both to the same depth (I'm not arguing that it's always
possible to do so), because en: reader and zh: reader should be supposed to
have the same amount of interest in the topic. (Again, I may be wrong on WP
underlying goals, but I feel that "encyclopedic" POV is not only neutral,
but "universal", I mean here that any topic is interesting in this POV)