On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jimmy Wales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Don't forget Esperanto. On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Michael Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Some of those comments was openly promoting ethnocide and linguistic discrimination and aparently nobody noticed it. I knew that wikimedia was a little anglocentric, but this is too much. -- △ ℱajro △ IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lernu! - http://www.lernu.net Wikimedia Argentina - http://www.wikimedia.org.ar _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
