Actually, I would not go as far as suggesting that some money should be spent for supporting languages, but, indeed, if the language support is a (secondary) goal of the Foundation, then a special care can be taken of the languages for instance where Wikipedias constitute the largest amount of texts available online in these languages. This special care can be creation of Wikicompendia as suggested earlier, or increased volunteer effort for such projects, showing participants how to edit, what to write and such things, or indeed some additional advertisement among target groups, or smth else I can not immediately think of. On the other hand, if this is not a goal, we can raise the bar and just watch who is going to make it. I am not talking now about artificial and extinct languages, and I am not talking about doomed languages with dozens of speakers, it is more about endangered languages (dozens of thousands, may be even hundreds of thousands speakers).
Cheers, Yaroslav
All these comments are very informative, but we're straying from the topic. The question is not whether we should deliberately exclude minority languages or cultures, but whether we should consider the preservation of cultures and languages part of the Foundation mission. If we don't consider something a goal, that does not mean we work *against* it. For example, our goal is not to promote human rights or prevent child soldiery, even though our work benefits those causes.
Should the Foundation be willing to allocate donated funds and resources to that purpose? What is the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation itself (not of the individual users, who have their own causes and motives)?
-- Yours cordially, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
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