2011/7/11 Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com
Note that estimates from the past (and likely from the present) count that no language with less than 1M of speakers would survive 2050.
If Wikimedia projects and WMF leave to die 90% (or 80%, or 70%, or 60%) of current languages in the next 40 years (we will be alive to see it, probably), then both are failures.
Look this: * http://blog.archive.org/2011/01/30/digitizing-all-balinese-literature/ * http://www.archive.org/details/Bali
And compare http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ban
Partnership between Internet Archive and Wikimedia Foundation is mandatory. Second one has to learn a lot of the first one.
IA has a small staff too[1] (WMF boasts about that), but they are doing much more to preserve and spread knowledge than Wiki[mp]edia projects. Unfortunately they are only on the 213 of Alexa ranking.