By hopefully having a Wikipedia in all 700 languages that will be around then.
Language death makes me really sad, and there are lots of things that are being done about it, and more should be done, but I'm not sure it's the Foundation's job, just like it's not our job to save endangered species (there are lots of great organizations working on both problems already).
2011/7/11 emijrp emijrp@gmail.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language
"It is believed that 90% of the circa 7,000 languages currently spoken in the world will have become extinct by 2050, as the world's language system has reached a crisis and is dramatically restructuring."
How is Wikipedia going to affect this language disaster? WMF 2050 goals ideas : ) ?
2011/7/11 Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 21:28, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
- 270 Wikimedia languages (however, you would see below that the term
"language" is not quite precise)
One note: there are 270 languages counting Simple English as a constructed/controlled language. If it isn't counted, there are 269 languages.
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