Sue Gardner wrote: > 1) If we're imagining a continuum with smaller/higher-quality/restrictive > at one end, and larger/variable-in-quality/permissive at the other .... I am > curious to know where the other language versions situate themselves. I am > assuming that (with some exceptions) they cluster closer to the English > model than the German, but I am just guessing. Do they? >
yes I think the english and the german wikipedias are two models and examples that are often used for the other language versions. I remember the talk from Harel in Taipei about the Hebrew Wikipedia and had the impression that they orient themselves more on the german model. Personally I believe that if German is more bigger language it this model would be used more often. On zh-wp we had lots of discussions about using english model or the german model. At the end the english model won, mainly because people simply began to translate the english policies into chinese and other people orient themselves on these policies. I myself tend to support the english model because I think the german model is more oriented to the classic papel encyclopedias and discourage a lot of volunteers and also unneccessarily constrain themselves from the more possibilities that a online massive cooperative project offer. You remember my presentation in Alexandria. Back to BLP. Personally I think that the policies we have related to BLPs are enough, but maybe we should be put more resource in the inforcement of these policies. The meetings Philipp mentioned in Germany are a very good start point. Perhaps the foundation can help organize such OTRS-training-meetings in the US (because the lack of a US chapter) and other countries, just as a beginning. Later we maybe we can see how we can expand this to more regions and countries. We should also encourage more people to work and help on OTRS and give them due support. Ting _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
