My concern is having multiple wikis for nearly identical languages allows various povs not to have to collaborate and we are more likely to end up with difficulties like in Croatian.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 07:56 Steven White <[email protected]> wrote: > My point is that these "politically-motivated claims" are already facts on > the ground, whether you like it or not. > > Steven White > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Langcom <[email protected]> on behalf of > MF-Warburg <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 8:43 PM > *To:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee > *Subject:* Re: [Langcom] Wikipedia in Saraiki > > > > Am Mo., 28. Okt. 2019 um 16:08 Uhr schrieb Steven White < > [email protected]>: > >> Well, as I have said many times, the current rule as written is >> problematic, and we have no business rejecting Montenegrin at this point. >> > > No, Langcom has "every business" to do so. > > >> The policy, as written, says *"The committee does not consider political >> differences, since the Wikimedia Foundation's goal is to give every single >> person free, unbiased access to the sum of all human knowledge, rather than >> information from the viewpoint of individual political communities."* You >> have to read the whole sentence there, not just the first phrase. By "not >> consider[ing]" political differences, the committee in fact perpetuates the >> fact that *existing* projects may already have "the viewpoint of >> individual political communities". In these cases, people in minority >> communities are tremendously disadvantaged in that they have to overcome >> (possibly) hostile political/cultural viewpoints—and may well not be able >> to do so. >> > > Your interpretation is exactly the opposite of what is written. The > intention of the policy certainly was not to give every politically > differing group their own wiki. > > Thank you for your explanation in your other mail of why it is difficult > to achieve a true NPOV. However, who has claimed that Langcom should NPOVs > on any wiki? > > One of the purposes of Langcom is to prevent the multiplication of wikis > due to politically motivated claims that one language is actually two. > > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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