On 30 September 2011 13:26, Richard Symonds chasemewiki@gmail.com wrote:
It also gives us the benefit of government support for those languages - as with, for example, the Catalan Wikipedia, which is encouraged rather a lot by the regional government. I wouldn't be surprised if the Welsh Wikipedia was the largest general reference work ever written in that language.
True. There are definitely grants available for projects benefiting the Welsh language, and those are probably among the easiest grants for us to get. The rest of our work can then benefit from the economies of scale you get by doing more stuff. I'm not sure we would be able to get similar grants for Scots or Scottish Gaelic (there probably are grants from Gaelic, but not anywhere near as many as for Welsh).