[Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

Mon Dec 1 19:45:07 UTC 2008

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com> 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 <finney.md at gmail.com> 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.

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