As a collateral benefit, yes. But making it one of our goals actually can be
counterproductive to the mission of producing free content, if resources are
spread
too thin. Trying to do too much can cause organizations to end up doing
little.
Anyways, what does this have to do with Anthere's original point?
She was asking us to find ways to stop newbies from being bitten, after
all...
Titoxd.
On 10/23/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
Indeed we are, we are building encyclopaedias in many languages as we want
to bring knowledge to all people of the world. Isn't it great that there
is
the collateral benefit of saving languages ?
NB English is a foreign language to me :)
Thanks,
GerardM
On 10/24/07, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I didn't realize that it was the mission of Wikipedia to advance the
survival of foreign language. Silly me, I thought we were building an
encyclopedia.
-Dan
On Oct 23, 2007, at 4:23 PM, GerardM wrote:
Hoi,
No. It does not need it.
Success is relative. The English language Wikipedia will not aid the
survival of the English language. Consider that the Bangla
Wikipedia is the
biggest on-line resource in the Bangla. Bangla will also not be
saved by
Wikipedia. But for other languages Wikipedia makes a REAL
difference. When
there is a proper localisation for MediaWiki, it can be used
outside of the
WMF as well.
No, the English language Wikipedia may bring in most of the funding
even
most of the readers but it does not make the same difference as
several
projects in other languages do.
Thanks,
GerardM
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