We have heard this type of criticism before, that lower-prestige varieties or languages that are not "official" or "national" languages are somehow intrinsically incapable or unsuited to encyclopedic writing. Article quality on a Wiki is not high or low due to some intrinsic characteristic or trait of the language variety used, it is a result of the content not being well-developed. Also, many languages in a relatively small territory does not mean living in a ghetto; on the contrary, count how many national languages there are in Europe, then count how many across all of Latin America, then take a look at economic indicators and you'll see that there is no necessary correlation between linguistic diversity and poverty.
-m.
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose you may be interested: http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio/el-me-aristotil/2134379/18 But, don't expect it to be an actual usable judgement about those projects, because it's more like a pretext to comment some recent Italian events. A Google translation to English contains "only" 2-3 completely wrong sentences.
Nemo
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