Craig Franklin wrote:
That said, while a Gothic wikipedia would be interesting (I'm sure this is the Robert Smith fan inside me speaking ;-) ), I'd wonder whether there really is that much interest in it. Even being optimistic and taking a high estimate for the number of speakers (say, 5,000), I don't know if anyone would actually be willing to add to it. Not that having a Gothic Wiki with no entries would really tax the foundation, but I don't think we need *another* deserted Wiki with five articles in it.
Come to think of it, I suppose I wouldn't mind it being created really, for the reason you mentioned---there's really not much to lose. We might gain some publicity in certain circles, and we're unlikely to be negatively affected.
I'm still somewhat dubious, of course---a reasonable Wikipedia needs at least a few hundred articles to be written, and it appears there has not been a single piece of text written in Gothic in the past few decades. If it did work, Wikipedia would suddenly become the source of 99% of extant Gothic texts, which would be somewhat interesting.
-Mark