Hi,
Gregory Maxwell a écrit :
I don't think that people understand the immense cost involved. The
Wikipedias in dying langauges are tiny because the labor needed to
make them comprehensive does not exist in volunteer form. ... which
should not be shocking, since if *a language is dying people will not
be excited about writing in it*.
You should consider that the main cost being writing articles, it is not only made for but
_by_ one language speakers.
I would go further and say that it's not only the fact to have the content (articles)
available to read that helps to "save" a language but the very work to write
them as well.
There is an enormous manpower cost in creating a
usable and
comprehensive Wikipedia. Due to the volunteer nature of the project we
do not see this cost but it still exists.
Due to the nature of the project, people can be pleased not only to use the content, but
to build it, so it is a big work, but I would'nt call it exactly a cost.
When we talk about using Wikimedia funding to preserve
dying
languages, which don't have the volunteer pools needed to build
Wikipedia naturally, we are talking about bringing that huge cost on
to the foundation.
Did anyone but you told about people being paid rather than being volunteer to edit small
language Wikipedia ?
Mathias Damour