On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:24 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> The trouble with ethnic conflict articles is that, rather than a few > problem editors, there's an effectively infinite stream of partisans. > (For whatever reason: local education is often partisan rather than > NPOV?) So, even though a core of opinionated-though-neutral editors > accumulates, there's an eternal stream of people who don't know and > don't care about NPOV or Wikipedia principles in general - as far as > they're concerned, someone is being WRONG on the Internet. > Well, at least English language training can help, at least to give people a foundation. And for those with sufficient English proficiency and the interest to come and participate, Wikipedia can give them an education - one way or another. It's in everybody's interest that such education be less "enforced" and be instead more enlightening, and that's why I think people aren't so interested in concepts of "enforcement" as they are in collaboration. -SV _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
