Hi,
Do you have any plans for any other Russian minority languages?
Obviously the Tatar Wikipedia doesn't exactly need such a boost, but
the Chuvash Wikipedia could use it (60-something articles right now I
think), as could the Chechen, Abkhaz, etc.
Mark
On 29/05/05, V. Ivanov amikeco@gmail.com wrote:
2005/5/29, Guaka guaka@no-log.org:
Reading this thread... An idea that pops up right now... Communities
could be provided with one or more computers, under the condition they
regularly write new Wikipedia articles. An internet connection is
probably too expensive at such places. This way people can be provided
with lots of valuable information in languages some people can
understand while at the same time working on information in their native
language.
Make computer usage free for people who contribute to Wikimedia projects
(or localization, documentation, development of free software, free
information projects), and people who don't contribute can choose to pay
a small sum that pays the electricity, and possibly the internet
connection...
Buying a computer and transferring it to Tskhinval may cost at least
100 USD. We cannot afford it now, as we have 1000 RUR (about 37 USD)
in our fund. Maybe we'd better run the project as it already runs now:
but nothing really prohibits us to dream of a couple of computers for
the editors in South Ossetia.
Sl. / Amikeco
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On 29/05/05, V. Ivanov
amikeco@gmail.com wrote:
> 2005/5/29, Anthere
anthere9@yahoo.com:
> > > The one thing that is not mentioned in the discussion is who would fund
> > > this proposal. Is there a rich Ossetian benefactor willing to pay for
> > > this idea? There are many other languages that could benefit from this
> > > approach, but it should not be the responsibility of the general
> > > community to pay for such things in other languages either.
>
> > This is not a proposal, it already exist.
> > It is currently funded by individuals, who may or may not be
> > contributors. I just do not know.
>
> It seemed to me, I've mentioned the benefactors in my previous
> messages: there are *four individuals* both in Moscow and Vladikavkaz
> who have already paid 1000 RUR (~20 articles) for the project and are
> going to help it from time to time so that we will be able to pay at
> least 100 quality articles a year.
>
> Sure, if the idea of Anthere will be realized, we will be able to use
> the money of foreign benefactors as well: also for popularizing the
> encyclopedia at the universities. I believe, people would pay articles
> in a smaller language more willingly, if the see the project in work
> and having real results. But also without external help it runs
> already, using the fact that the Ossetian speakers are rather
> diversified by income: some live in poorer South, some in more
> successful North.
>
> Anyhow, I agree with Ray that Wikimedia Foundation should not fund
> projucts like that -- it is not a smaller languages supporting
> organization after all.
>
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