[WikiEN-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Requests for the Hebrew 'pedia

Fri Jul 18 20:52:37 UTC 2003

> 
> --- Rotem Dan <rotem_dan at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> > I think that reagardless of geographical, national
> > etc. differences on 
> > wiki users demographies (that I think has nothing
> to
> > do with anything 
> > here anyway). he.wikipedia.org is a complete,
> > (almost) independent site, 
> > that has its users and readers, they should be the
> > ones who vote for 
> > decisions related to their site, including policy,
> > wiki code, layout, 
> > licensing and logo. 

Well, here is a problem with the En:wiki policy -- as
its applied accross boundaries.  Do you agree that the
GNU FDL is required also for the he. wiki? How about
NPOV?

Its certainly impractical to say that the en:wiki can
impose controls upon the he:wiki -- therefore, yes --
the he:wiki is almost fully under the command of its
30 users, and anyone else who can read/write Hebrew
and wants to contribte...  I agree that the he:wiki
deserves a Hebrew logo, layout, etc.  and that a
Hebrew consensus will be the default --as if
non-readers people could monitor everything that goes
on.  A loyalty to GNU is required.

But all *that is different from saying "Were an island
unto ourselves --  we dont have to obey offlander laws
like "GNU" or so called "principles" of
"professionality," "NPOV", etc... this is simply not
the case, (If that is what Dan is saying)  regardless
of the language or the language gap -- all Wikipedias
are a part of Wikipedia.org, (*not en.wikipedia) and
as such are commonly steered by consensus..

To facilitat communication, there will be a greater
need for open discourse about these issues on the
international mailing list,  (in whatever language.)
Everyone interested in anything other than just their
own language should join that list as well   No doubt
thats whyDan  (you)  is (are) talking about this. But
to say that the language barrier represents something
more than what little it is - is a common  (and
honest) misconception among a great many Wikipedians.

-S-

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