[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia is an encyclopedia

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Daniel Mayer wrote:
> >Thus helping to preserve an endangered language by hosting an encyclopedia
> >in it also directly furthers our goal. This would not include non-famous
> >conlangs since those are largely original research. 
> >
> This would be an argument for having good articles like [[en:Hopi 
> language]] (and the equivalents in de:, ja:, zh:, fr:, etc.) -- 
> information about languages written in a language that people can read. 
> Merely preserving a language that nobody reads by writing an 
> encyclopedia that nobody reads in it isn't really furthing the goal of 
> disseminating information to people.

A great deal of information and cultural heritage is contained in the language
itself. This goes way beyond what any set of articles in other languages can
ever hope to accomplish. 

-- mav


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