[WikiEN-l] Re: Audience : was Re: pictures of genetalia

Tue Jan 13 18:21:10 UTC 2004

I agree with what Tarquin, Charles, Erik said.

And we should not think "culture", just language.
Those who share a language do not necessarily share a same culture. 
Organising information to reflect the most proeminent culture among 
those using a specific language is not a very good idea.

Though admitedly, by default that happen, because the editors of that 
proeminent culture are more numerous. It is not because it happens that 
it should be a goal.

Daniel Mayer a écrit:
> Anthere wrote:
>>I guess we will have both to see that we are not 
>>writing for the same audience. As long as you 
>>accept that some do not recognise these notions  
>>of *primary* and *secondary* as valid, while others 
>>do, that is fine. 
> 
> 
> This whole discussion was more academic than practical since things naturally 
> develop toward what I described unless unnatural force is applied to direct 
> things down another path (which does happen for individual articles but on 
> the whole it is not a very significant force).  
> 
> Those of us who speak more than one language, however, should remember that 
> there are different notions of how to organize information in different 
> languages. They should therefore not just assume that the way they do things 
> in their primary language is necessarily transferable in other languages they 
> may know. 
> 
> This is one thing that I have learned while working on Wikipedia. 
> 
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)