Please, speak for yourself :) I *do* care, and if there is an easy and definite solution, I'd love to embrace it. I think we should care about our little siblings, about the smaller languages as we call them, and support them if possible. I can only hope you were being extremely ironic :)
Because bear in mind, especially in those languages, a complemented work of human knowledge really adds something. In the large languages, we already had encyclopediae and dictionaries of good quality. Wikipedia is better sure, and has improved our lives. But now just imagine that you are living in Botswana, and on school (if you're lucky) there is very little material available... and now there is an encyclopedia... In YOUR language! Even if it only contains 1000 articles, you can already learn a lot from it. You can improve your knowledge, and increase the odds in competition with the western world. It won't do miracles of course, but every tiny little bit helps.
And now imagine that this goes for all languages. And not only encyclopediae, but also learning books, dictionaries and perhaps one day even other collections. Wikipedia *does* make a difference. (and I'd almost add: donate now ;-) )
Best regards,
Lodewijk
2008/11/30 Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk
Do we care that 80%
of our projects are failing? Thanks, GerardM
No. Why should we? Nobody actually reads shit like the albanian wikibooks (doesn't matter if that doesn't exist, you get my point). Such projects exist purely the monomaniacal benefit of the editor(s), not any readers. Let them all fail, with the exception of Wikipedias en,fr,de,ru,etc + wikt and commons.
CM
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