[Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages - The problem are those people who can't read.

[WereSpielChequers]

Re "The problem  are those people who can't read." One of my concerns
is that in setting our target at the world population we inevitably
set ourselves up to fail - though I accept that arbitrary minimum
reading ages are of little use, and the youngest 10% of a population
can mean the under tens or the under 4s.

But I don't think we should be to concerned about literacy by 2050.
Someone is bound to have designed a proper speech based interface by
then.

WereSpielChequers

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> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:14:21 +0200
> From: Thomas Goldammer <thogol at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages
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> 2011/7/11 emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com>:
>> @Thomas and @Andre: I know that it is very hard to mantain a Wikipedia in
>> 'remote' or 'almost extinct' languages, but, if we don't save as much as we
>> can of them (including words, grammar, culture, social values), how are we
>> going to offer 'all human knowledge' ?
>
> We offer this knowledge by having articles about the grammar, culture
> and social values of these languages, and by having wiktionary entries
> for the words of these languages. We do not need to have the human
> knowledge *in* these languages. It would be nice, but it's not
> necessary to reach the ultimate goal to offer all human knowledge.
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>>
>> 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.
>
> Th.
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