I am under the impression that at least a couple of them are not elderly, and that there are definitely for example university professors who speak teh language fluently.
In addition, I was sure these people spoke German fluently. Why couldn't you start with a German interface, like the Bambara wikipedia started with a French interface?
Mark
On 10/05/05, Wouter Steenbeek musiqolog@hotmail.com wrote:
Whatever success you have had, you have not indicated.
I know from experience that if people are serious, they will be willing to work on it right away - the people who say "I may work on it someday" or "I will work on it after so-and-so date" are the people who end up never helping.
Regardless of who speaks it, it has been much longer than "one week", and there has been 0 signs of activity. I don't expect a thousand-article Wikipedia, but I think the community expects some measure of success (at least 10 or so good articles by native speakers) or at least one on-list endorsement by a fluent speaker (if you have more than one, people will listen more).
It has been a long time. I think - and I'm sure the community agrees, or feels more strict than do I - that you should withhold a request for a North Frisian Wikipedia until you can meet at least one of the things I've outlined above.
If these people are motivated, you should be able to get them to support your Seeltersk request on-list, or add content to the test WP.
Mark, I am talking about elderly people, who are -thank God- connected to the internet, but read no English (yes, you're reading it rightly!) and have no experience with wikis or whatsoever. So I have to translate the interface and other structure files and explain how how it all works before they can show their existence on wikimedia at all.
W.
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