Re: On Dialects.

--- "Vladimir V. Medeiko (Dr Bug)"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> For the short run, resources of contributors are
> divided between several
> dialects and so none of them has enough resources,
> and some of them even
> don't have "critical mass" that allows them to
> evolve.
> 
> On the other hand, for the long run, dialects
> represent slightly different
> views on the sensitive issues, and this means two
> things - first, articles
> in both dialects improve their quality through
> convergence instead of edit
> wars, and second, one who comprehends one dialect,
> most probably comprehends
> another one too and so is able to read additional
> information of the same
> topic.

This sounds almost like a Fred Bauder argument-- which
led to internet-encyclopedia.org  (which has a nice
logo by the way) 

~S~

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