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