2007/10/23, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
On 10/23/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Success is relative. The English language Wikipedia will not aid the survival of the English language. Consider that the Bangla Wikipedia is
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The purpose of Wikimedia is not "TO SAVE DYING LANGUAGES"
If we happen to do so in our effort to help educate the world, fine. But preserving languages should never come at the expense of bringing education to people who need it.
Languages die because there is no education available in those languages. Think about that for a second, and you see that a side-effect of Wikimedia's goal of bringing free content to all the people in the world in their own language, is actually saving languages.