William, those are my concerns exactly (along with the "and which standard dialect of English should we use?" concern).
Emily On Apr 24, 2010, at 10:17 AM, William Pietri wrote: > > Has anybody actually studied the effect on actual users of removing > schemes like [[Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key]] in favor of > IPA? > > It's obvious that having IPA pronunciations advances our mission for a > certain highly educated segment of user. But for the rest of our > readers, the answer seems to be, "Well, you should learn IPA." > > Although it's probably true that they *should* learn it; the > question I > think we should answer is whether they *are* learning it. If not, then > stripping a key they can read in favor of one they can't would move us > away from our vision, which is people sharing freely in knowledge. > > William > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
