Mark Williamson wrote:
Since I apparently hate all projects besides Wikipedia (according to an e-mail Mr Meijssen sent me), I'll stick with a nice "ditto" instead of rehashing all of Andre's arguments.
Nice job, Andre :-)
Mark
This thread has gone on for some time with very little constructive suggestions, and lots of accusations flying back and forth. I am not certain I understand all the objections.
The requirement that people starting new Wiki's actually BE NATIVE SPEAKERS OF THE LANGUAGE AS A FIRST OR SECOND LANGUAGE AND ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO SPEAK OR WRITE IT and that a MEDIAWIKI MESSAGES FILE be created is very reasonable and a great barrier to entry to keep out those who are not competent with a target language. It seems those complaining about it the most are folks who may not be fluent enough to be able to complete a Messages File for MediaWiki.
Just because people have a few college classes in "outer frabanian" or some other obscure languages does not warrant the foundation going through the expense and time of setting up a wiki for a group of folks who A) are not part of the culture the language is concerned with B) don't speak it or are immersed in it well enough to understand the underlying cultural impacts.
The whole idea is to promote other languages to a target audience of speakers, not to create "busy projects" for folks with nothing better to do with their time who are marginally interested in a particular language.
Jeff