2012/8/5 Scott MacLeod worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com:
What's the deployment plan, for languages 10 through 285 (number of Wikipedia languages) through 7,358 (per "The Ethnologue"), particularly in terms of developing community email lists (graduate students?)
Beyond the first few Wikipedias we plan to allow deployment on all other Wikipedias more or less simultaneously. There is no reason not to do so, so once it works on the first few Wikipedias it should work on all. We know that this is wishful thinking and will monitor closely once we do that.
For now, we do not intent any impact of Wikidata on the creation of Wikipedias in further languages, a process which firmly rests with the language committee.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee
Is there a meta wiki deployment page for this?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Deployment http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_deployment
What's the current state of email lists / wiki pages for all of Wikipedia's 285 language communities?
You can find them here, as far as available: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo You will see that many languages don't have their lists yet.
World University and School is planning for all 3000-8000 languages, each as a wiki page to begin: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages .
I wish you all the best luck with your plans!
Cheers, Denny