"Peter Jaros" rjaros@shaysnet.com schrieb:

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Actually, I think these might be too inclusive when looking at dead languages. While I am all for the Latin Wikipedia, and would not mind a Sanskrit one, Hittite or Sumerian are another matter. Many dead languages are only in passive use, and to exclude those, I would like to restrict ourselves to those languages in which (new) documents have been written within the last 50 years or so.

I agree instinctively with your point, but I must ask: why exactly? If a group of speakers can maintain a Wikipedia in that language, isn't that requirement enough?

Yes, that should be enough, but I think it would be good to get prima facie evidence that they can. And such evidence would I think best be "Well, we (or others) have already written articles in this language."

Andre Engels