On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:32:59 +0200, Andy Rabagliati andyr@wizzy.com wrote:
If we plug away at the en: wikipedia, adding African-related articles, maybe a couple of years down the line we will be able to automatically translate to Xhosa. I think that is a /much/ better use of everyone's time than writing a Xhosa wikipedia.
Well, that's the thing: it's not a zero-sum game. The set of people who would work on African articles in en: and on a Xhosa wikipedia are not the same. We're not all going to learn Xhosa, and not all would-be Xhosa writers know English. (For example, I would speculate that there exist well-educated Xhosa speakers who speak Afrikaans but not English.)
Provided the resources are there, I don't see why we couldn't simply do both.
Steve