Nathan wrote:
I think that preserving a language is a good
goal, but it is one that
Wikipedia is not well suited for and is not intended to fulfill.
Creating an automatically translated article on every city and town in
the US is not a way to 'preserve' a constructed or dead language. If
the point is to aggregate knowledge in a way that is accessible to as
many people as possible, how does a Wikipedia in a constructed
language (a code, really) serve that point?
While Wikipedia, where we have
original writing, is not best suited to
these small languages, the same is not the case for some sister
projects, notabnly Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikisource. Constructed
languages need to be viewed differently from dead or endangered
languages, because most of them need to have a culture constructed as
well as a language.
Sources in other languages are valid sources. This means that a small
language Wikipedia may be completely based on sources written in other
language.
And bot-generated articles are the best example of doing so because
they *are* based on valid sources.