Mark Williamson a écrit:
In addition, I have personally found so far that there are at least a few Wikipedias where we already have Wikipedians who are fluent in the language but do not contribute to it because they either don't know of its existance or are busier with another Wikipedia. This is true with some of the Wikipedias in South African languages (people contribute instead to the English or Afrikaans Wikipedias), some of the Wikipedias in Indic languages (people mostly contribute to hi: and ur: instead of their local language with the major exceptions being ta:, kn:, and ks: and to a smaller degree a couple of others), European minority languages (I have a strong suspicion that there are at least a couple of speakers of French minority languages on the French Wikipedia who do not contribute to that Wikipedia, same with Russian and Italian minority languages, and with Saami speakers on Scandinavian-language Wikipedias). The problem of simple lack of awareness would be fairly easy to remedy, but if somebody doesn't want to work on a Wikipedia in their own language, there is no forcing them.
Mark
Since I started on a small wikipedia nearly 3 years ago, I can say it clearly. Working nearly alone on a small wiki is rather boring. Little feedback, little interaction. Most people dont find that fun. I waited that more people join fr to really start working on it.