[Foundation-l] Quran in Sitenotice

Thu Jul 13 13:13:24 UTC 2006

Sean Whitton wrote:

>In response to this I would say that #2 is the most important pillar,
>something which Jimbo used to quote on his userpage (this seems to
>have gone now). I would agree with him because a projects as wide
>reaching as the foundation's cannot prosper without this. We need to
>keep things as open and accessible as possible and only through NPOV
>can we encourage people to get involved. If I was a non-Muslim speaker
>of Urdu, I can imagine being concerned that the site was heavily
>orientated in that direction, which is not the idea. Referring to #1,
>it's an encyclopedia and the only purpose of having different
>languages is to allow others to read and edit, not to make any other
>divisions.
>  
>
But are you a non-Muslim speaker of Urdu who has complained and dealt 
with this locally on the project?  I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't 
raise concerns, but a knee jerk reaction is also not called for if there 
is a place to address this within the Urdu Wikipedia and getting active 
users from within that project to deal with the issue.  I just havn't 
see what steps are being done from within the community to address the 
issue.  If you have tried to deal with this issue and admins are being 
belligerant in keeping this sitenotice up, that would be a completely 
different issue altogether.  Even then, we are only getting one side of 
this issue and assuming bad-faith.

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Robert Scott Horning