Hi!
But those folks somehow just can't make themselves
believe that my
requests are valid. :)
Well, some resistence is obviously going to come up, as long as you have
this talk directly connected with ANY wiki. Partly because small wikis are
born as a small team project, and some admins may regard "their" wiki as a
personal possession, in which they are kings and zars... artly because when
there is a clear vested political interest any change in policy is obviously
going to mean a change in power distribution among the involved parties.
Me thinks that we should really stop to even mention BE:wiki as such, and
confront ourselves with a strictly technical problem, regarding all
editions. I also suppose it's time we think of the possibility of creating a
technical comitee for small endangered languages, in order to deliver common
policies, general purpose marketing tools and information.
There definitely are two classes of languages (although many of the editions
may actually find themselves in a grey area between the two): strong and
weak languages. And they do have different technical problems. So maybe what
is good for english can be a killer for maori, and the opposite may also be
true. But in the end we all need the very same thing: to produce a good
edition and to be helpful to users, while developing a wide user community.
Bèrto