Hoi, Macro languages are nicely defined. They are languages that used to be recognised at one time as a single language but are found to be a combination of multiple languages. Kicking the idea of macro-languages is daft; it is not only a result of the work of SIL it is more the consequence of the work of the maintainers of the iso-639-1 and the iso-639-3. Thanks, GerardM
On 10 July 2011 21:28, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
This time I've cleaned the list of Wikimedia [content] projects from meta:Special:SiteMatrix [1] and calculated some numbers [2].
So, for statistics, there are:
- 270 Wikimedia languages (however, you would see below that the term
"language" is not quite precise)
- 270 Wikipedias
- 146 Wiktionaries
- 83 Wikibooks
- 29 Wikinews
- 67 Wikiquotes
- 58 Wikisources
- 12 Wikiversities
- 665 total content projects
There are:
- 12 languages with all 7 projects
- 16 languages with 6 projects (usually without Wikiversity)
- 22 languages with 5 projects (usually without Wikiversity and Wikinews)
- 16 languages with 4 projects
- 24 languages with 3 projects
- 59 languages with 2 projects
- 121 languages with 1 project
- 19 languages with all projects "closed".
Note that just small number (if any) of closed projects are actually closed. The most of them is possible to edit.
Interesting part in this part of statistics [3] is that Wikimedia projects are by number of projects dominated by languages with smaller number of projects. 121 languages with just one project (up to now exclusively Wikipedia) have 44.81% share in the number of Wikimedia languages, but also 18.20% share in the number of all Wikimedia projects (which is the biggest share).
Fortunately, Wikimedia projects are dominated by individual living languages [4]: 240 of 270 languages.
22 of the rest of Wikimedia languages are treated [by SIL] as "macrolanguages". That definition is vague: from practically the same languages up to the groups which could be treated as language family. Anyway, it says that we have a number of not solved issues related to the projects which serve multiple languages.
We have 8 Wikipedias in constructed languages, 5 in historical, 3 in dialects or different written forms, 2 in individual living languages but without ISO 639 codes, and one in revived language (Manx).
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix [2] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias/List_of_Wikimedia_proj... [3] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias/List_of_Wikimedia_proj... [4] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias/List_of_Wikimedia_proj...
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