--- Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au a écrit :
In all three cases, the majority of speakers are accustomed to obtaining information in a national language. Even if we create it, the Wikipedia in Waray-Waray or Neapolitan will never be comparable in size to the Wikipedia in English or Italian. So regardless of what we do, they'll have to continue to obtain most of their information in the same way. The function of these wikis, it seems to me, would be pride rather than education. That's not the function I volunteered to promote when I signed up with Wikipedia.
And cultural conservation ? Avoiding the vanishing of languages is a good purpose, in my opinion. In your hypothesis, if we look at the extrem case, why to start a wikipedia in another language than english, since more and more people speak this language ? Just learn english, and you will have access to wikipedia !
These requests have many supporters, native
speaker support
(especially in the case of Ladino and Neapolitan,
where heaps of
native speakers dropped by to show their support),
and no opposition.
There are always many vocal supporters, and there are always people who are silently opposed. Or rather, they are silent until those in power give in to the lobby and create new wikis, and then they open up with ridicule and criticism. We've seen it many times before.
People who are silently opposed ? What does it mean ? They are opposed, but not enough to express their opposition. I call that "people who don't care"...
-- Tim Starling
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