- An academic excersise?
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_3_110/ai_73064217/pg_1 <- Gothic was last heard in the Crimea by outsiders between the 1780s and 1790s, according to the page (and if travellers passing through still heard it in the 1780s, it probably survived in remote areas until the 1800s or 1810s). As is normal with language death, descendants of the last native speakers undoubtedly knew some of the language, less with each generation, until perhaps the 1850s or 1870s (though it could hardly be declared fluency most likely), and I would not be surprised if there are still a couple of hundred Gothic words in use by their descendants today in Tatar/Ukrainian/Russian/whatever language it is they speak now.
I can't speak for everyone here (obviously), but IMO there's nothing wrong with promoting a Gothic revival of course, just a concern that a Gothic Wikipedia is not currently the best way to do it. It seems it is not actually spoken by anyone fluently, or used in day-to-day communication, which is the sort of thing Wikipedias are for (for looking up encyclopedia-type facts).
Actually there are fluent speakers (though no native speakers). I'm not sure about communication on a day-to-day basis, but I do know that I have seen entire e-mail conversations on lists as well as entire webpages in Gothic.
It is apparently an interesting language, with some amount of information available and a community of people interested in it, which would make it a good candidate for hosting the extant historical texts in wikisource, and developing a working dictionary of the language in a Gothic Wiktionary.
Actually there are already people who are fluent in Gothic, and their internet connectivity percentage is probably much higher than for other such populations because the core of that community is academians (though there are plenty of general enthusiasts who are fluent).
There's probably not much of a point of hosting the extant historical texts in WikiSource as a major project as they're already available online for free (under what license, I am not sure).
If that were done, and if people started to use the language, then the case for a Gothic Wikipedia would be much stronger. It's just odd for there to be an encyclopedia for a language in which there is apparently no contemporary writing and no good dictionary.
No good dictionary? What? There are quite a few good Gothic dictionaries, a couple of them available on the Internet. There *is* contemporary writing, i.e. e-mails, webpages, and a small collection of short poetry. In fact there are even neologisms for things like "computer", "e-mail", and even "electric bill" (of course these are recent inventions, but they were derived similar to the way neologisms in Icelandic or in formal Arabic have been derived, ie using existing words in the language rather than borrowing).
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