--- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:

I might agree, but disagree that a Wikipedia-produced encyclopedia in the language effectively captures it. Does the Latin Wikipedia properly capture the cultural heritage of Latin, for example, or merely the perspective of English, German, French and other speakers writing Latin as a second language? More importantly, does having a new article on quantum mechanics written in Latin contribute anything that the extant corpus of Latin writing doesn't?

No - but writing about Virgil in Latin will be. As would writing about any number of other works in Latin. Some things (esp humor and meter) simply do not translate well.

-- mav

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