---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Redaziuni info@linguasiciliana.org Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:40:36 +0200 Subject: Re: Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia gratuita, libera, i multilingue, in lingua siciliana To: Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com

Dear Mark, thank you for your email and apologise for the late answer. I can confirm you the support for the creation of the Sicilian wikipedia. LinguaSiciliana web site is made up by a LinguaSiciliana Forum that has got at the moment more than 350 members. I will post your message into our Forum and I and the others members wil be happy to help and contribute into the creation of the Wikipedia in Sicilian language. The project is maching with the main LinguaSiciliana organizasion's objective.

Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information.

Best regards

Nino Atria LinguaSiciliana.org Forum

Mark Williamson writes:

Ciao a tutti.

I apologise in advance for not knowing very much Sicilian or Italian.

Perhaps you have heard before of Wikipedia? http://it.wikipedia.org/ <- the Italian wikipedia

Right now, on the Wikipedia mailinglist, it is being discussed whether maybe we should create a Sicilian wikipedia. So far there are no Sicilians in the discussion, and people think there should be at least a couple of Sicilian speakers willing to make at least a small commitment to helping build a free online encyclopedia in Sicilian.

So I ask you these two questions:

1. Do you support the creation of a Sicilian-language Wikipedia?

2. If a Sicilian-language Wikipedia is created, do you think you might

contribute to it?

best, Mark Williamson