Snipped long debate:
For all the comments about preserving languages, no--that is not the goal of Wikipedia or any of the other WMF project. In other words, if there is one Eyak speaker left, it is not the goal of the WMF to teach people Eyak so that they can then write encyclopedias and other reference works in Eyak for future generations of a vibrant Eyak community to be.
With reference to Upper, Lower, Middle, or Lost in Limbo Sorbian (or any other such language), while I quote from memory, the foundation's goal is to create reference works for people "in their own languages." In other words, as long as there is a viable body of speakers, it would merit a wikipedia and other projects. NB, that is not to say that we should put fundraising campaigns on hold until the fundraising interface is translated into Sorbian, etc.
Danny
PS. Marie Smith Jones, the last native Eyak speaker, died less than a month ago, on January 21, 2008, so the above example is moot. But, you get my point ... (See _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Smith_Jones_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Smith_Jones) )
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