'I must be very naive not to have realised, all this time, that the so-called "English Wikipedia" was actually the "American Wikipedia". Or could that nomenclature reveal a somewhat suspicious starting point?'
I don't see a problem with that choice of words. While there are large numbers of non-American contributors much of the English Wikipedia is about subjects of interest to American writers and written from a largely American point of view. I would not be surprised if this were even more pronounced in the early days. Note that Enyedy refers to the early Spanish Wikipedia as being padded with English language text, which must indeed have been jarring to Spanish speakers, and perhaps especially to Europeans. America is a very big part of the English speaking world so it's okay that there is a heavy emphasis on American culture in Wikipedia. In the context of the early Spanish Wikipedia however, it probably made very little sense. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
