[Foundation-l] en.WP dysfunction (was: A letter to Wikipedia collides with the non-free content policies)

Sun Jan 27 15:20:55 UTC 2008

Hoi,
The foundation is list is NOT there to seek clarification of issues of the
English Wikipedia. Given what this list is about it is noise.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On Jan 27, 2008 2:47 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> > And then, please reconsider whether it is so clear that and why
> > en.wikipedia should have any "predominance" on foundation-l. The
> > German Wikipedia is the second largest project and, in relation to its
> > 'rank', it is hardly ever present on foundation-l. Same goes for
> > French Wikipedia etc. etc.  Astounding, is it not?
>
> Not really. While non-English posts are welcome, they are
> understandably rare and responses to them even rarer. The large
> non-English projects are large enough to get by on their own, and it's
> easier to do so than to discuss the matters here in English. The
> English projects could get by on their own if they had to, but it's
> easy to come here for clarification on certain issues, so why not do
> so? Smaller projects sometimes can't get by on their own, and have no
> choice but to come here.
>
> It makes perfect sense that foundation-l is dominated by English
> projects with most of the rest being from small projects (in addition
> to the stuff concerning all projects, of course).
>
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