On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:35:10 -0700, Mark Williamson wrote:
Are any of your students Ossetic speakers, or for that matter speakers of other Russian Federation languages?
No. They are mostly ethnic Russians living at St. Petersburg.
Even if you don't know if any of them speak it, it would be a very nice thing to mention.
Well, I did mention that it's in tens of languages, including minority ones as (several examples here). In fact they are future linguists: and the fact of multilingualism at Wikipedia might be interesting for them.
If a presentation is being made in Spain, I think it is important to say "Not only is it available in Castillian, but there are also Wikipedias in Asturian, Aragonese, Galician, Catalan, and Basque".
Well, I've put the news to http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%... . The text is smth like "28 February: the Ossetic Wikipedia is now on, being the fourth Wikipedia in the languages of Russia, afte the Russian, Tatar and Chuvash wikipedias".
also meet with Hawai'ian language activists to discuss Wikipedia with them, but obviously and understandably such issues are not as
For lesser used languages Wikipedia might be extremely necessary, for the speakers often don't have enough resources to print a classic encyclopedia. Flexibility of Wikipedia mechanism is the best here. While in Russian or English they can argue, if Wikipedia is good (reliable, etc.) enough, in a lesser used language they just don't have much choice!
important when your focus is not linguistic diversity), in Phoenix mention that we have a Navajo Wikipedia,
If it's code is nv, then its interwiki links don't work at os.wikipedia.org and I have to cut them.
Sl.