I find that horribly discriminatory.
And where do we draw the line? 3 speakers? 300? 3000? 30000? 300000? 3 million? 30 million?
--node
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:15:30 -0400, Evan Prodromou evan@wikitravel.org wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
People underestimate the cost involved in setting up a wiki.
Once again I'd like to point out that having a language-specific Wikipedia is not usually the best way to organize, promote, or develop a language.
It's probably much better for a group of interested people working on a small or endangered language to set up a general-purpose wiki that encompasses the Wikimedia ideas of a Wikipedia, Wiktionary, a language-learning Wikibook, and perhaps a few other community- or discussion-oriented purposes.
There are a _lot_ of free or low-cost PHP hosting services that can host a wiki. Mediawiki can be hard to set up on these services, since MySQL usually costs significantly more, but there are a number of other wiki engines* that work with flat files and don't require a database.
Anyways: I think the best strategy is to tell people who want to have a Wikipedia in their language to go start a wiki somewhere else. If they can show that they have a robust community that can support a Wikipedia, then they should get an xx.wikipedia.org domain (as well as other xx.wikisomething.org stuff).
~ESP
- I can hear it now: "Huh? There are other wiki engines? There are other wikis?
I can set up my own? Huh?"
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