Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Andre wrote:
A policy that says that we will exclude the same on all languages, says that we don't trust the Wikipedias to make their own choices.
I think that's very well said.
I don't see how this is a good policy. By happy accident of languages, we have no US-specific Wikipedia, in which Americans get to decide how their Wikipedia is going to look---they have to share their English Wikipedia with the opinions of all other English speakers on the planet who choose to participate. Some languages aren't blessed with as diverse a population of speakers, but this is no excuse for making decisions that don't take into account the opinions of the rest of the world.
-Mark