Hoi, Do I understand that you want something like a "Wikicompendium", a resource that would be particularly geared towards the least resourced languages ?? What you can do is have a wiki with namespaces for particular types of information. You may also want to read/comment on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Providing_information_when_there_is_little_or..., it describes many of the concepts that could apply.
This year is the UNESCO Year of the Language. When we set up a project like this, we are likely get a lot of appreciation for this !!
Thanks, Gerard
On Jan 17, 2008 12:19 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
I would be thrilled with a Wikisource in Pitjantjara. This demonstrates
the
language even better. I can also imagine that making stories available
for
everyone and not for just an "ivory tower" would provide a great
argument to
use a Wikisource.
Exactly. Wikipedia is famous, but an encyclopedia in the restrictive Wikipedia sense isn't the first answer for everyone. A general compendium (encyclopedia, dictionary, source and quotes in one) might be. There's lots of ways to do something useful in that language :-)
- d.
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