[Wikipedia-l] From Romanian Wikipedia, the Nazi Encyclopedia

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Apr 15 17:58:52 UTC 2007


Francis Tyers wrote:

>>The solution is broader participation by Romanian speakers. So don't give up and 
>>don't engage in a meltdown on the site. Continue to advance alternate versions of 
>>the disputed articles, but don't overdo it.
>>
>>The Foundation may chose to intervene, as I doubt this is an isolated problem.
>>
>>Fred
>>    
>>
>The majority of the sensible Romanian Wikipedians on the English
>Wikipedia don't go anywhere near the Romanian Wikipedia, and I don't
>blame them. 
>
That sounds like a big part of the problem.  Viewed in the context of 
Nazism, an important factor in the rise of the Nazis was all those 
ordinary citizens who saw that something was wrong, but contented 
themselves by believing it was somebody else's responsibility to fix the 
problem.

Ec




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