[Foundation-l] Priorities

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Indeed we are, we are building encyclopaedias in many languages as we want
to bring knowledge to all people of the world. Isn't it great that there is
the collateral benefit of saving languages ?

NB English is a foreign language to me :)

Thanks,
     GerardM

On 10/24/07, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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