Hoi,
Indeed we are, we are building encyclopaedias in many languages as we want
to bring knowledge to all people of the world. Isn't it great that there is
the collateral benefit of saving languages ?
NB English is a foreign language to me :)
Thanks,
GerardM
On 10/24/07, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I didn't realize that it was the mission of Wikipedia to advance the
survival of foreign language. Silly me, I thought we were building an
encyclopedia.
-Dan
On Oct 23, 2007, at 4:23 PM, GerardM wrote:
Hoi,
No. It does not need it.
Success is relative. The English language Wikipedia will not aid the
survival of the English language. Consider that the Bangla
Wikipedia is the
biggest on-line resource in the Bangla. Bangla will also not be
saved by
Wikipedia. But for other languages Wikipedia makes a REAL
difference. When
there is a proper localisation for MediaWiki, it can be used
outside of the
WMF as well.
No, the English language Wikipedia may bring in most of the funding
even
most of the readers but it does not make the same difference as
several
projects in other languages do.
Thanks,
GerardM
_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l