2018-02-28 1:25 GMT+02:00 James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com>: > > I was not trying to say that everybody > > should learn English. The point I was > > trying to make there is that knowing > > English is a privilege and that it is easy > > to not notice it. > > I agree with that, too. How is teaching language different relative to > the Foundation Mission than teaching subjects of encyclopedia > articles? > > We are not *teaching* encyclopedia articles. We are making it possible to write them and to read them. It is not the same thing as teaching subjects.
Should we do teaching? Maybe, but since it's different from making it possible to write and read, I'm afraid it would be losing focus. Is there anything bad about teaching languages? Of course not. It's great. I'm just not sure that it's the right thing for Wikimedia to do, when Wikimedia should be busy getting even better at its main thing: wiki articles. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
