On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 06:03:23AM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I would certainly oppose any idea that the Metric system is better than English (it isn't, and for many purposes it's provably worse), and going further, even if Metric were better, it isn't the role of wikipedia to push it on people. (The government in the U.S. has been trying since I was a little kid to encourage the use of Metric, but with only tiny impact.)
What if it turns out some people only understand the (hypothetical) Elbonian Measurement System? Do we then include three numbers each time we give a measurement?