Re: [Foundation-l] Signal languages Wikimedia projects

[Birgitte SB]

--- On Sun, 11/23/08, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Signal languages Wikimedia projects
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org>

> 
> Wikimedia's mission is to promote knowledge, we believe
> we can do that
> best by supporting the many languages which people prefer
> to use, but
> Wikimedia projects should not be a tool for promoting
> isolation. Not
> nationalist isolation, not cultural isolation, and not the
> isolation
> of the deaf. Accomplishing the former without venturing
> into the
> latter requires careful action and careful consideration of
> who we
> allow to advise us.

This is very well said. But how do we really avoid becoming a tool for 
promoting isolation?  All the projects are accomplished on a grassroots basis 
and if the grassroots community wishes to be exclusive WMF does not have the 
capability of making them otherwise.  Case in point is the inability see the 
development of ro.WP with latin/cryllic transliteration.  No matter that 
everyone who is not promoting nationalist isolation understands that this is 
the solution, it cannot be accomplished until the ro.WP community moves past 
nationalism.  
 
BirgitteSB



      

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