Scríobh Mark Williamson:
Also I feel that as long as it isn't a conlang, it doesn't matter how many speakers there are as long as there are people interested in writing an encyclopedia.
You do realise that Esperanto is a conlang, and it has one of the most active Wikis out there? There are some other conlang-Wikis out there too, like tlhIngan Hol, Interlingua, and Sindarin (Tolkeinese, I seem to remember this existing, although I can't remember the code).
I think that so long as a language has modern speakers, some of whom are interested in writing an encyclopædia, there should be no restrictions.
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.
As always though, it's not up to me to decide ;-)
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