A. Decorte wrote:
Hello, I'm the user (Klenje) who was quoted at
the beginning in the
request;
I'm a friulian speaker, I'm active in
italian wiki, and there are other
friulian
people like me outside in the net (don't
forget that Friulian is spoken by
more
than half million people), therefore i think there
is the chance for a
decent
friulian wikipedia to be created; I can show you
several site in friulian,
and
if they aren't more, this is due to the policy
of italian government which
so
far doesn't promote minorities within Italy.
Friulian speakers share this
problem with sardinian and sicilian ones, but in my opionion wikipedia
could
help changing this situation; the only risk in
creating a friulian wiki is
the
possibility of vandalism, but every wiki is
started from few users and
there
are many ways to prevent it.
I don't think that there is wide objection to having a Friulian
Wikipedia. The validity of the language is solid. My own objection to
the initial proposal was based on the fact that the person doing all the
promoting did not himself know the language. The initiative,
administration and other work to make such a project a success needs to
come from people who know the language.
Ec
Yes, this is right and that's why I came on the mailing list, to show that
there
is one someone interested who can speak friulian.
Regards