My doubt on the subject is that people come and write what they please (usually a few lines, more rarely a proper article), so how do you manage to plan your content? I'll be grateful for any info you can share.
Well, if I'm writing an article from scratch, I usually search for information in encyclopedias and different books (mostly in Italian), I gather them than I write down a first textual version, that I'll later wikify. But there are also articles started from other people, even anonymous, and they usually add just few infos as you said. We usually try to add thing like their bibliography or more about their life, even if there is always the problem that you don't find much on Internet, so it's a heavier work. And consider also that (like you AFAIK) I don't live in Friuli, so I can't access to many sources normally. This is a problem that people usually think is limited to developing countries, but it affects also smaller, minorized language in the Western world. That of the forum could be a good idea, IMHO this would be very useful (I'm thinking for example at bots for international stuff like countries, or domains).
About school, you touch a big issue. Teaching is already mentioned in 1999 minority law, but it should *probably* start next year; there's a lot of problems tough, I don't know if it will start but I hope so. This would be a huge help, before it's too late. Here [ http://www.lenghe.net/read_art.php?articles_id=1243&PHPSESSID=f5a34db500... ] you can for example see that CGIL (which is one of the main trade unions in Italy) is opposing since "the 50% of the teacher come from elsewhere, and they don't speak Friulian.
I think we should open a forum (with normal forum software, not a wiki) to host discussions among small wikies. We have our dimensions, problems and needs; it could be useful to share ideas where people are like you.
FMI, is Furlan taught in public schools? When you have schools you don't need to make an alphabetized user base out of thin air and subsequently don't need sandbox stubs and the like. :)
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