"Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de schrieb:

Concentrate, yes. Ignore the noise, no. We have to draw the line *somewhere*, and if you do not suggest an alternative to the 10,000 speaker requirement I have to presume that you want to draw it *nowhere*. The inclusion of Toki Pona sets a highly questionable precedent.

10,000 speakers, or whichever other number, does not sound like the best of limits. For one thing, I don't want to disqualify the Nauruan Wikipedia (or the Manx one, for that matter). I'd say the rules for ISO 639-2 are quite close to what we would want: One needs to be able to prove that there are 5 institutes which taken together and discounting equal documents, have 50 documents in the language.

I'd say that a similar requirement, but used less strict, would be a good criterium. Thus I would propose to allow languages in the following three categories: * that are on the ISO 639-2 list * for which it is made likely that there are 50 or more different documents in various archives * which are spoken by at least 10,000 people, provided there exists some kind of generally accepted spelling

As another thing, what do we do with dialects? Would dialects with a reasonable amount of speakers and some kind of literature in the dialect be allowed to get their own Wikipedia version?

Andre Engels