[Foundation-l] Cross-wiki articles

Sat May 2 18:09:49 UTC 2009

The question is - shouldn't there be one set of standards for all
Wikipedias? I think it is "unfair" that I can read about Simpsons episodes
in the English Wikipedia, while those how speak Hebrew cannot.

2009/5/2 Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com>

> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The Hebrew Wikipedia community decided that Southpark episode named "Chef
> > Aid" is not worthy of an article, not because of it's content, but
> because
> > it is an unimportant episode.
>
>
> In spanish wikipedia we soemtimes delete articles found in others.
>
> The usual cry is "but the english wikipedia has it" and the usual reply:
> yes, but each wikipedia has a different set of standards.
> And as far as I know, Wikipedia does not try to be the sum of ALL human
> knowledge, it's not in its mission statement nor the foundation. that was a
> phrase  said by jimbo, but it's his particular vision
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