That's actually a great idea, and following further from your example, they could develop a wikiversity course in how to do it.
-Dan On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Crazy Lover wrote:
Languages
- what kind of languages can have wikis?
any that has a standarized writing system and enough writers and readers to form a viable community and audience. whether a particular language qualifies depends on discussion.
i thinks, it is a simple and workable criterion to start a unitary and congruent policy.
once again, what do you think?
Standardized writing systems can present a problem when you consider the first nations languages of the west coast of North America. Many of the writing system were devised by anthropologists from around 1900, and were never intended to serve the speakers of the language.
Ec
Affirmed. I think particularly of some native languages that have a decent number of speakers, but very few who write. In my home state of Oklahoma there are some tribes in exactly that position. Yet, I think it's dangerous to ignore the potential role of a wikipedia or wiktionary in educating those speakers and turning them into writers. For instance, I can see an elder in the Yuchi Tribe, for instance, who might assign the class to write wiktionary definitions in Yuchi as part of a language assignment. That serves two goals: it grows community for a Wiki, and also helps to save a dying language.
Philippe
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