Berto schrieb:
Me thinks that we should really stop to even mention BE:wiki as such, and confront ourselves with a strictly technical problem, regarding all editions. I also suppose it's time we think of the possibility of creating a technical comitee for small endangered languages, in order to deliver common policies, general purpose marketing tools and information.
There definitely are two classes of languages (although many of the editions may actually find themselves in a grey area between the two): strong and weak languages. And they do have different technical problems. So maybe what is good for english can be a killer for maori, and the opposite may also be true. But in the end we all need the very same thing: to produce a good edition and to be helpful to users, while developing a wide user community.
Well ... maybe now I am risking to be killed ;-)
That is a blog about the problem with rare and minority languages: http://sabinecretella.blogspot.com/2006/05/languages-languages-languages-and...
Fact is, the problem persists ... and it will become more and more problematic the more people in regions that today are not well connected get access to the Internet.
When I started to write the text it was programmed ... then while writing thoughts just came along and istead of writing what was programmed a completely different concept came out ... and re-reading it: it makes sense ...
Curious about your thoughts ... :-)
Ciao, Sabine
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