A nationalist point of view is not neutral point of view. I can imagine what the dictator of Kazakstan considers a suitable article.
Fred > Yesterday Yuri, ED of WMUA (and my college in FDC) was interviewed in > the main morning program on Swedish Radio re the ua.wp contra ru:wp in > Ukraine and of Kazak WIkipedia > > The 8 minutes report is half in Swedish and half in English so a bit > hard to listen to [1] > > The most interesting parts are > *The Kazak dictator is making all academics in this country to update > the Kazan version of Wikipedia, perhaps to get it POV but mostly so they > will not be dependent of ru:wp, ie he sees it as a must to have a decent > Wikipedia version in order to be independent of the culture from Russia > *In Ukraine the former education minister (pro eu and pro Ukrainian > language) actively promoted the ua:wp so not be dependent on ru:wp. The > current minister have the opposite idea and has made Russian an > official second language in the eastern part of Ukraine > *It seems the university students make it as almost a political choice > if to use ua:wp or ru:wp, and then in western Ukraine choose ua:wp > > The central role of Wikipedia in theses vital political issues I have > not heard of from our ordinary "western" chapters/language versions (or > is catalonian/Amical an example) > > And reflecting on this, I also think, even if independent, of the > dramatic increase of use of arabic and indonesian wikipedia [2] . Also > of Vietnamese wikipedia which has a tremendous increase in number of > article by intellegent use of bots. Also of the very interesting > development in India, with their many different language versions. > > We here very little (nothing?) from these interesting developments, > where we all probably can have a lot to learn > > Asaf talks of the problem of getting Global South started as there are > very weak/missing wp communities. But are we as a movement doing enough > to support the active communities and developments in the Global East? > (I can not help also think of Sues words re elections within the > movement. Do these processes conserve our existing dominance in Board > and groups of representatives coming from western world?) > > Anders > > > [1] > http://sverigesradio.se/api/radio/radio.aspx?type=db&id=4725418&codingformat=.m4a&metafile=asx > [2] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htmtic > increase of use of arabic wikipedia > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
