[Foundation-l] Criteria for the closure of projects.

[Mark Williamson]

Again, this is not about extinct languages. We aren't really talking
about closing the Gothic or Anglo-Saxon Wikipedias, at least not in
this thread (although GerardM has claimed that the Gothic Wikipedia is
written in the Latin alphabet, this is incorrect; the majority of
material is written in Wulfilas' alphabet).

Under Gerard's criteria, the only languages (as far as I know) that
are likely to qualify are living, written languages, as even the Pali
Wikipedia has over 2000 articles. If I am incorrect, I am sure there
are only a couple of exceptions maximum, and would be happy to discuss
them.

Mark

On 11/04/2008, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree.
>
>  To have a Wikipedia project you need to have a "writing people" (not
>  speaking people).
>
>  If they are not probably *new* articles cannot be produced.
>
>  IMHO for extinct languages probably are better other types of project
>  like Wikisource.
>
>  IMHO Wikipedia has got a popular purpose and this project must
>  widespread content, if there are not a live community this purpose is
>  not reached. Different is the purpose of Wikisource which must collect
>  and archive documents.
>
>  Ilario
>
>  On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Gerard Meijssen
>
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
>  >  Like you I want to see a thousand flowers bloom. However, I am not a stamp
>  >  collector. I want living projects representing living languages (here I mean
>  >  languages that are actually used by people). I want to make sure that a
>  >  project is understandable to its readers and this is why localisation is
>  >  essential. I want to make sure that a new project has a good start and this
>  >  is why new projects have a kernel of a community and a kernel of content. I
>  >  insist that there must be something to read; it cannot only be a picture
>  >  with a caption.
>
>
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