On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 15:37 +0200, Wouter Steenbeek wrote:
Guaka scripsit:
From my experience with both the Limburgish and the Bambara Wikipedia
nearly all existing institutes won't really bother as long as there's not a basic amount of articles.
Well, in the case of the Limburgic wikipedia: the institutions were simply ignorant of the project. Recently we started contacting some of them, receiving positive reactions and some beginning edits, even though they hadn't yet informed their members.
Well they were ignorant because they ignored the emails when there wasn't yet a basic amount of articles. I've sent mails before (I must confess I forgot where exactly) and apparently Node ue has done the same. So the institutions were ignorant because they ignored it. Which is reasonable, since there was nothing to see yet. Or nothing of interest to inform their members about.
Institutions usually consist of persons. It'll depend on the person who reads the mail on what's being done with it. If the Wikipedia is bigger chances are higher that the person will (re)act. Same if the person heard about Wikipedia (in general) before. Even more if the person would know that there are Wikipedia projects in nearly 200 languages.
Guaka!