We are - or at least we can and should be - promoting the writing of encyclopaedias in the minority languages, and potentially dictionaries and other related projects. Many of the smaller language wikis are intensely cultural projects - not in a narrow, arts focussed sense, but in a broad sense of using the languages in a productive fashion, and providing information in those languages for other speakers to use. This is, of course, true of the larger wikis too, but it tends to be a far less important element.
Rescuing source documents written in those languages, and also making available images of importance to the culture of various communities, are also cultural heritage. It's not always easy to draw a sharp line between the two.
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2008/10/12 Mickey Conn mickey.conn@gmail.com:
Primarily, promoting the use of, and contribution to, wikis in minority languages.
That's education - getting knowledge to speakers of those languages. And possibly heritage - rescuing source documents written in those languages. I don't see how what we'll do involves culture, we're not writing literature in minority languages.
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