Alphax wrote:
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Mark Williamson wrote:
No! I meant to say that... umm... they exist, but
you won't find them
at your library because there are no printing presses in Zlatibor so
they have to write out copies manually!
So if there's no printing presses, let alone computers, exactly *who* is
going to read this glorious Zlatiborian Wikipedia?
Someone will read printed articles out of that wikipedia I suppose -
just like I do for Neapolitan here in the town - I print some pages and
pass them to people that know Neapolitan, that love their language and
that sooner or later will contribute also passing me hand written stuff
to be integrated into wikipedia from which I then give back the printed
articles that can be copied etc.
Well: for Neapolitan we have a bunch of online contributors, but for
many languages this is not possibile, so why not choose this very
particular way of distributing knowledge?
Imagine how it was 35 years ago - I then was 5 years old - and every
week I went with my grandpa to the public library to get some new books
to read. Well in many countries (today) they don't even have these
public libraries, but just a place where someone has material at
disposal other people can read (and learn to read with). Imagine even a
handmade booklet of wikipedia articles that pass from one person to the
other to be read and that there are people out there that are really
keen on having information on learning on wanting this. Who are we to
say: well if they don't have a computer and internet access "they may
not have" their material. Sooner or later they will have internet access
- so why not help them to get things earlier? Why not have even only one
person as "mediator" to put things online? I know, these wikipedias will
grow slowly, but that does not matter at all - it is a start and where
there is a start sooner or later there will be people who do work on
that and o really great work since it is easy to have an encyclopedia in
a language millions speak, but veeeery hard to have one in a language
only a few thousand speak - it requires much more work and much more
being constantly involved of those few who "can do".
Hmmm ....
Ciao, Sabine
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