Traroth wrote:
--- Tim Starling
<t.starling(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au> a
écrit :
The function of these wikis, it seems to me,
would
be pride rather than
education. That's not the function I volunteered to
promote when I
signed up with Wikipedia.
And cultural conservation ? Avoiding the vanishing of
languages is a good purpose, in my opinion. In your
hypothesis, if we look at the extrem case, why to
start a wikipedia in another language than english,
since more and more people speak this language ? Just
learn english, and you will have access to wikipedia !
There are many good purposes, and cultural coservation is one of them.
That does not mean we should scatter resources to support every such
proposal that comes along. How is an endangered language saved by a
diletante with more ego than brains, who happens to write a handful of
articles in the language in question.
There are
always many vocal supporters, and there
are always people who
are silently opposed. Or rather, they are silent
until those in power
give in to the lobby and create new wikis, and then
they open up with
ridicule and criticism. We've seen it many times
before.
People who are silently opposed ? What does it mean ?
They are opposed, but not enough to express their
opposition. I call that "people who don't care"...
Maybe those who are silently opposed have better things to do with their
time than maintain a vigil over every cockamamy scheme that comes
along. They would rather save their energy for those instances when one
of those schemes threatens to succeed.
Ec