Ziko van Dijk wrote:
2008/3/29, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com>om>:
If the purpose of a Wikipedia or wiki in general
is to communicate
information...
then creating a wiki to serve a small group of people who are already
fluent
in
other major languages does not serve the purpose.
Not quite that. Nearly every Sorabian speaks German, but the Sorabians do
have a linguistic community that has activities. A Wikipedia in that case
makes very much sense. - Don't forget that a language is more than a tool to
communicate, it also deals with identity.
That's the crux of the question, though---is supporting linguistic
identity, even in cases where it doesn't serve to communicate
information to a wider range of people, a goal of the Wikimedia
foundation? Some interpretations of the mission statement have said no.
-Mark