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(a)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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