[Foundation-l] Priorities

[Dan Rosenthal]

I didn't realize that it was the mission of Wikipedia to advance the  
survival of foreign language. Silly me, I thought we were building an  
encyclopedia.

-Dan
On Oct 23, 2007, at 4:23 PM, GerardM wrote:

> Hoi,
> No. It does not need it.
>
> Success is relative. The English language Wikipedia will not aid the
> survival of the English language. Consider that the Bangla  
> Wikipedia is the
> biggest on-line resource in the Bangla. Bangla will also not be  
> saved by
> Wikipedia. But for other languages Wikipedia makes a REAL  
> difference. When
> there is a proper localisation for MediaWiki, it can be used  
> outside of the
> WMF as well.
>
> No, the English language Wikipedia may bring in most of the funding  
> even
> most of the readers but it does not make the same difference as  
> several
> projects in other languages do.
>
> Thanks,
>     GerardM