Jimbo: Thank you for your comments. As a person who manages a small wiki project and two language forks from it, I found some of the comments very disturbing... almost frightening that such exist. Your comments re-affirm my confidence in the Wikimedia Foundation and its purpose.
Thanks. Mike On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Jimmy Wales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Geni wrote: > >>> "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage > >>> people around the world " first line of the mission statement. By > >>> actively promoting minority languages you lock more people into them > >>> which is not consistent with trying to empower them. > > I wrote: > >> I do not share geni's views at all. > > Thomas Dalton wrote: > > It doesn't seem that anyone does... > > > I should add at the same time that I think that it is a good thing for > people to try to learn a relevant global language in addition to their > local language, with the choice depending upon personal context. > > In many parts of the world and for many people, English is an excellent > choice of a second language. In other parts of the world (Francophone > Africa for example), French is an excellent choice. Chinese might be > good for some people. Russian for others. Hindi for others. There are > many variables. > > And I hope that Wikipedia is helpful to people both in learning about > the facts of reality (usually most comfortably done in your mother > tongue) and in learning another language. I don't see these goals as > being in competition at all, but rather mutually reinforcing. > > --Jimbo > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
