On 12 September 2011 06:49, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote:
> Only countries which have lists of monuments compiled by the government > and having the status of the law are eligible for WLM. This is in some > sense POV but no more POV than say writing articles of members of > parliament who were elected by direct vote. If Japan has such a list (I > hope it does) next year it would be eligible to participate. My > understanding is that somehow the organizers did not expect such interest > and did not try to contact chapters outside Europe. Presumably next year > they will do. On the other hand, by the next year some of the European > countries may exhaust their monuments (in the sense that the most of the > pictures will be taken and the articles written or judged to be impossible > to write). Thus, NPOV does not seem to be a problem to me. It would be systemic bias rather than a NPOV problem as such. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l