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

[Ray Saintonge]

Michael Snow wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
>   
>> Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Foundation have many contacts in many
>> countries. I am sure that someone somewhere in their network have a
>> friend of a friend who speaks some of these languages. If not now, I
>> am sure African languages will have them after Wikimania in
>> Alexandria.
>>     
> If I understand correctly, there are more African languages than there 
> will be people attending Wikimania. Even if everyone who came to 
> Alexandria spoke a different language, the coverage would still be 
> woefully inadequate. (For our next Wikimania, we'll rebuild the Tower of 
> Babel.)
The friend of a friend argument has the productivity of the six degrees 
of separation argument: not very productive.  An argument might run as 
follows:
    1. I have met Florence and she is thus my friend.(first degree of 
separation)
    2. Florence attended the Davos conference, and everyone that she met 
there is her friend, thus a friend of my friend. (second degree of 
separation)
    3. Those who attended at Davos are friends with everybody that's 
anybody, who are thus my friends in the third degree of separation.

I don't think this gets us very far. :-)

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