[WikiEN-l] Cultural distinctions are accidental? Consensus among cultures is bad?

Thu Jun 8 16:25:32 UTC 2006

On 6/8/06, Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at> wrote:
> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> >
> > Jimbo claims he's said this many times in the past.  I couldn't find
> > any, but if anyone else can maybe I can better understand what he's
> > saying.  If Jimbo does "NOT think that cultural distinctions between
> > difference language Wikipedias are accidental", then he must think
> > they're intentional.  That raises the question as to who intended
> > these distinctions, and what distinctions were intended.  I always
> > thought the English Wikipedia at least was supposed to be neutral with
> > regard to culture.  Maybe English is the exception?
> >
>
> Regardless whether the cultural distinctions are intended or not,
> they are a fact. I would consider i.e. a translation of terms like
> Islam and Terrorism from english to arabic and vice versa very
> exciting.

Me too.  In fact, if it were possible to translate every article using
machine translation, I can imagine lots of reasons why we'd want to do
so.

Anthony