[Wikipedia-l] Re: censorship and guidelines

[Anthere]

Delirium a écrit:
> Anthere wrote:
> 
>> Third solution : we all share a common goal of non censorship, but we 
>> admit we censor a little bit nevertheless and we admit that these 
>> decisions should be taken locally, by local communities.
>>
>> Needless to say, I am all for the third one. I think minorities 
>> opinions should always be considered, and the argument that the 
>> english wikipedia community is the bigger so should be the one to 
>> decide for other communities is not valid as far as I am concerned. We 
>> have common goals, we have common big rules, but we have essentially 
>> local applications of these rules.
>>  
>>
> But this is in itself a majority-rules view, in which minority opinions 
> in a language are ignored.  Languages only correlate weakly with 
> countries, and so what, for example, people from France say should not 
> automatically be the deciding factor in what the fr: Wikipedia does.  
> What French-speaking people from other countries say (and not just 
> countries that have French as an official language) should also be taken 
> into account.

This is correct, though I must say that for the greatest part, I do not 
know where most french-speaking editors come from. Essentially, the 
differences of written french between say canadian, belgium, french, 
swiss people is so little that it is very difficult to guess unless they 
tell you.

> Which is why, generally, I strongly oppose language-specific policies 
> that cater towards "local" sentiment, where "local" is defined as "the 
> dominant countries that speak the language".  This is fortunately 
> easiest in the en: Wikipedia, because the U.S. and U.K. are quickly 
> becoming less and less dominant in terms of English-speakers on the 
> internet, so will no longer be able to consider en: their "local" 
> Wikipedia, but a *global* one, but is still a major problem in many 
> other languages...
> 
> -Mark

So.... are you saying that you consider that editorial policies should 
be taken on a more global basis than it is currently the case ?