[Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages

[Thomas Goldammer]

2011/7/11 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il>:
> 2011/7/11 Thomas Goldammer <thogol at googlemail.com>
>> > How many people don't
>> > understand any Wikipedia today?
>>
>> Of those who can read at all, probably much less than 1%. The problem
>> are those people who can't read.
>
> For persons who can't read it's far better to learn reading first in
> their own language.
>

Sure, it is. But, wake up, that's not how the world works. Children
who go to school do usually learn the official language or the lingua
franca of their region. And those who are not lucky to have access to
a school won't usually learn how to read anyway. Sure, one can dream
of a perfect world, where there is a school all the way up to final
graduation in any language of the world where children learn to read
and write their own native language, but that's a dream, not reality.
It would have maybe been possible to make this come true 100 years
ago, but it's not realistically possible anymore, most languages are
just moribund, children don't even learn them anymore. You can't fix
that.

Th.