2005/9/24, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au:
If those potential new contributors only want to write articles in some little-known conlang, I won't shed any tears if they stay away.
It'd be OK, if only WPs for smaller or non-existent languages are ignored. But I have an example of Udmurt WP, which has at least two native supporters (and more to come, if it started and shown good). Udmurt is a large language of more than 500 thousand speakers, it's not a "dialect-language", but a "fully featured" language with its own literature, newspapers, schools (though most in rural areas), etc.
I really do hope that the Udmurt WP will appear at least during this autumn. :) I've added Udmurt to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Approved_requests_for_new_languages if it is the newer shortest way.
Sincerely, Slavik IVANOV, [[:os:User:Amikeco]]/[[eo:Vikipediisto:Slavik IVANOV]]
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