[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia is an encyclopedia

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> I might agree, but disagree that a Wikipedia-produced encyclopedia in 
> the language effectively captures it.  Does the Latin Wikipedia properly 
> capture the cultural heritage of Latin, for example, or merely the 
> perspective of English, German, French and other speakers writing Latin 
> as a second language?  More importantly, does having a new article on 
> quantum mechanics written in Latin contribute anything that the extant 
> corpus of Latin writing doesn't?

No - but writing about Virgil in Latin will be. As would writing about any
number of other works in Latin. Some things (esp humor and meter) simply do not
translate well. 

-- mav

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