[Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages

emijrp emijrp at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 11:29:08 UTC 2011


2011/7/11 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il>

>  I'll never lose hope that we'll have a full-blown encyclopedia in each
> of the 7,000 languages, but even if we won't, it's still very much in
> the scope of Wikimedia's mission to have full collections of free
> texts in all of them - folk tales, religious texts, any spoken
> recordings, whatever. So for many languages a WikiSource project may
> be even more relevant than an encyclopedia.
>
>
Yep. Wikipedia community have to start to rescue that knowledge in danger.
Knowledge is being destroyed everywhere: digital (dead links) and analogical
(dying languages/cultures, places [without pics], etc).


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