[Foundation-l] Võro Vikipeediä

[Sulev Iva]

Dear members of the foundaton,
I'm a user of Estonian (Võrok) and English Wikipedia (Võrolang) and a native speaker, 
researcher and activist of the Võro language spoken in Estonia. Võro (native name Võro 
or Võro kiil´) belongs to the Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. It has about 
70.000 speakers mostly in southern Estonia. 
Language codes (not yet official) are Vro and Vr. See more about Võro in 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Võro and http://www.wi.ee/. 

I and my friends would like to begin with Võro language Wikipedia. We can translate 
Estonian language file to Võro (actually we have already started) and begin with 
creation of new articles. Of course your objection may be that there are too few 
speakers of Võro. Yes, but the speakers are quite active and computerized people and 
the Võro language community needs an encyclopedia in their own language. I'm sure the 
number of potential editors in Võro is not smaller than the Kashoub, Cornish, Gaelic, 
Faroese or Saami's or many other small languages' one. I have discussed the idea of 
Võro Wikipedia with Estonian Wikipedia developers: Andres, Ker, Klaus etc. 
(http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:Community_Portal#V.C3.B5rukeelne_Wikipedia). 
They are supporting the idea and will help us. I hope you will support us too.
Best regards, Võrolang -- 80.235.61.143 11:33, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)