Marcus Buck wrote:
I don't think that there are generally too few people interested in those languages. It's just hard to make the start. It's immensely frustrating to work on a wiki all alone, writing article for article, and after a year, you maybe have 100 or 200 articles and your Wikipedia is still just a little heap of disjunct articles with hardly any blue links and you realize that it will take years (or decades) until you have written enough articles to establish a resource, that is interconnected through blue links and covering all basic concepts.
I think in this situation a useful page that Danny Wool and a few of his friends thought up a few years ago, and has been improved upon subsequently by diverse hands, might help.
I am of course thinking about the list of 1000 articles each wikipedia should have. Just completing a significant part of that list is an accomplishment for a tiny pool of editors, but is within reach, and can serve as a useful incentive.
BTW, I understand there is some work being done currently to define a tinier subset of that list, which could be even better for projects with fewer contributors, which would define what the really really really core encyclopaedia articles are.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen