[Wikipedia-l] Death to the comma count!

[Takuya Murata]

>Hum, you are very right with language issue
>But, even if this list is in english, it is the main
>list, so issues discussed here are likely to impact
>all wikipedias

Then, we should stop this. Please don't claim this is a 
policy then you've got to conform that.

>Besides, that the french silliness with comma hunting
>that has been going on for about a month, that explain
>this subject being raised again. But the issue is not
>new :-)

My opinion is simple enough. We should stop governing non-
English wikipedias by English'd government.
 
>> Therefore, the discussion here
>> should 
>> be irrelevant and we should move this to each
>> wikipedia's 
>> village pump.
>
>Yes and no.
>It is not irrelevant, for some people thrive on
>monitoring the number of articles, and many
>internationals are eager to go up in the rank.
>For those, it is important that the numbering
>technique be the same, for the comparison to stay
>valid.

Why do we have to compare in the first place? We are not 
doing race where who reaches first milestone among non-
English editions.

>On the other hand, it would be interesting that
>discussions go in parallele in pump (of coffee shop
>:-)) for everyone to feel involved

Not feel but all of people must be involved. Unless that, we 
can claim the consensus is based on the public.

>My feeling is that counting technique should maybe be
>related to the language family.

That is my point. Couting should vary according to the 
language or something like family.

By the way, I posted an issue at village pump of 
ja.wikipedia. Hopefully they give me (not us, though) more 
thoughts.