On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
This type of guidepost might make things easier and more "obvious" for the Language subcommittee.
I'm really of the opinion that languages should be evaluated differently depending on the project in question. For instance, the language requirements to start a new wikinews should be different from those required to start a new wikiversity, etc. Some examples of such requirements:
1) Wikibooks, Wikiversity: There are populations of school students which are taught in language X. Notice this isn't the same as being taught about language X in language Y. 2) Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikiquote: There are original written source documents worth reading and preserving. 3) Wikinews: There is a speaking population, likely a native one, that is interested in consuming news written in language X
These are just a few examples, but it highlights some of the differences I'm thinking about. It doesnt make sense to have a Gothic Wikibooks when there are no Gothic school children in need of such books. It doesnt make sense to have a Wikisource in a language for which there are no surviving written records, etc.
--Andrew Whitworth