Jimmy Wales wrote:
Personally, I'd rather have it say, "Use metrics. Use only metrics. Any use of American or Imperial units is punishable by death.", but I doubt I could convince Wikipedians at large of the merits of it :).
Fortunately, I think you're right. You'd never convince me of the merits of it.
Well, know you have my sympathies ;-) We changed our currency from Deutschmark to Euro a year ago, and people still compare prices in Deutschmark...
I personally think it's only a matter of time until the rest of the world catches up to the U.S. and returns to using the English system in all the cases where it is more sensible to do so. So we have a responsibility to use both, to help them get ready for the change.
I think you forgot the ";-)" at the end of the paragraph. You don't honestly think so, do you? (Of course, everyone can have an opinion, it just strikes me as rather unrealistic)
Magnus