Hi Milos, thanks for those interesting facts!
On 05/22/2011 01:15 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
Those are preliminary results. We have two chapters
(and strategic
focus) in countries of the list above. Inside of the longer list,
which should be verified, we have more chapters. I noted that there
are even two languages of Germany without Wikipedia, but with more
than million of speakers: Mainfränkisch and Upper Saxon (the later
one without test Wikipedia).
These are German dialects and (I suppose) everyone who speaks them, also
understands German ("hochdeutsche") Wikipedia. Almost all written text
is in German, those dialects are exclusively used in the spoken language
(there might be some rare exceptions).
So I guess while it's fine to have Wikipedia language version in local
dialects of German, it should not be a priority.
Denny's question is key:
On 05/22/2011 01:22 PM, Denny Vrandecic wrote:
Can you also provide at least a rough estimate of the
number of
humans who don't have Wikipedia in any language they speak reasonably
well (understanding very well that this is a hard problem of
definition)?
-- Tobias