hello
I'm onw of these who can't get wp for 4-5 monthes (since the middle of June) :( Couse we are small community (about 0.5 mln) my plan is: when wp will be created I will give report about it to Samogitian Cultural Society. I think I will have some conversations with young people and government of Samogitian Cultural Society and here I hope I will find big help (about 80%). in the begining this wp would be for samogitian subjects (culture and like that) That's it. The domain is "bat-smg" or if You like only local domains - 'qsm". Interface could be Lithuanian at thirst. There is only one little problem about one letter which isn't in other languages (but it doesn't change the facts - Samogitian wp have to be created).
respectfully Arns Udovičė icq-194843258
2005/11/11, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com:
On 10/11/05, Arbeo M arbeo_m@yahoo.de wrote:
Sadly, it's a fact that roughly half of all Wikipedias are clinically dead at present. Being enthusiastically
And I do think that right now, our _top_ priority should be to find ways to populate these barren WPs.
Some ideas:
- Find language activists, or people who have a website about the language
- Find people on ICQ who claim to speak the language, and let them
know about that WP
- Let governmental or other official or authoritative organisations
know about that WP
- Get grant money to initially pay people to write good articles /
translate articles, especially in countries with a low per-capita income (sub-saharan Africa, for example), and when a sizable article base has been established, it will be much easier to attract new editors. This includes having people write articles offline, and then typing it up yourself.
- Depending on the size of the WP and the narrowness of its reader
base, you can put a sitenotice up at one WP that another WP exists -- the Romanian WP did something similar for a proposal for a Vlax Romany WP, and it was relatively successful.
These are all things that have worked in the past. There are obviously many more possibilities.
Mark
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