On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Fajro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:08 PM, geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> No. You can argue for the tolerance of minority languages but actively >> promoting them conflicts with Wikimedia's stated objectives. > > How? > > Do you edit wikipedia to give "Free Access To All Human Knowledge" > only to the educated elite?
Promoting minority languages certainly does not conflict with Wikimedia's stated objectives. But it is *not* one of Wikimedia's stated objectives. Wikimedia provides a platform where minority languages can develop; it's the people who can write these languages that do the actual development work. On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:19 PM, geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By actively promoting minority languages you lock more people into > them which is not consistent with trying to empower them. "Getting empowered" is not equal to "learning English". -- Amir Elisha Aharoni heb: http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng: http://aharoni.wordpress.com cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus: http://amire80.livejournal.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
