The only part that needs to come from people who know the language is
the content and the interface translations.
Mark
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:19:45 -0800, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
A. Decorte wrote:
Hello, I'm the user (Klenje) who was quoted at
the beginning in the request;
I'm a friulian speaker, I'm active in italian wiki, and there are other friulian
people like me outside in the net (don't forget that Friulian is spoken by more
than half million people), therefore i think there is the chance for a decent
friulian wikipedia to be created; I can show you several site in friulian, and
if they aren't more, this is due to the policy of italian government which so
far doesn't promote minorities within Italy. Friulian speakers share this
problem with sardinian and sicilian ones, but in my opionion wikipedia could
help changing this situation; the only risk in creating a friulian wiki is the
possibility of vandalism, but every wiki is started from few users and there
are many ways to prevent it.
I don't think that there is wide objection to having a Friulian
Wikipedia. The validity of the language is solid. My own objection to
the initial proposal was based on the fact that the person doing all the
promoting did not himself know the language. The initiative,
administration and other work to make such a project a success needs to
come from people who know the language.
Ec
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