I should add that these are not all minor languages: Kabyle is spoken by between 3 million and 7 million people worldwide.
Mark
On 30/03/07, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
The simple fact is that no new language Wikipedias have been created since the establishment of the language subcommittee, whereas before the subcommittee new language Wikipedias were regularly generated. Furthermore, if what people have been saying in this thread is correct, there are several languages that are ready and have been ready for establishment.
Yes. Kabyle = http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/kab (over 200 pages already), Lower Sorbian = http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/dsb (approx. 300 pages already), Saterlandic = http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/stq (approx. 300 pages already), Latgalian = http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wp/bat-ltg (approx. 150 pages already), Crimean Tatar = http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/crh (approx. 100 pages already), Dolomitic Ladin = http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/lld (over 40 pages), Karakalpak = http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/kaa (unfortunately only 15 pages).
I personally support the creation of all of those except for Dolomitic Ladin and Karakalpak because those two so far, despite unopposed requests, have not gotten many pages and it seems their supporters either left or have abandoned the test-wikis at an early stage.
The reasonable assumption is that something in the process is broken.
The nature of the response from committee members serves to support that assumption.
Yeah, no kidding.
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