On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Fred Bauder wrote:
I think that
you should choose languages that would have many
readers. High German,
French and Spanish for example.
We have a Wikipedia in low German already, The Netherlands one.
I think the Lower Saxon one (nds:) would be what I call low German.
Basque, Maori,
and Manx would have few readers.
Good examples of Wikipedias which might happen when those folks discover
Wikipedia in any numbers,
Actually, the Basque one is not a good example of one that might happen,
because it already has (although it is kind of moribund), see
http://eu.wikipedia.com
The language should be
easily written from a computer keyboard. This
would exclude Arabic and
Chinese. There must be some way to write them but I dont know how. It
may require a special keyboard and software.
It does require software but that is easily available. The Apple system X
has it, for example. I have seen pictures of special ideograph keyboards but
I don't think they are in general use.
Arabic exists, Chinese does, Korean and Japanese. We are beyond this person's
limits already.
Andre Engels