[Foundation-l] Ancient Greek Wikipedia

[Nikola Smolenski]

On Sunday 13 April 2008 20:34:09 Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> On Sunday 13 April 2008 10:43:37 Ilario Valdelli wrote:
> > Why you write in Wikipedia? You write in Wikipedia because other people
> > can read your texts and your articles, because your aim is the
> > widespread of knowledge.
> >
> > Perfect... an open project of Wikipedia *must* have got writers and
> > readers. Your aim is the communication and your mean is a wiki and for
> > this reason your communication is a *written* communication.
> >
> > Using a died language probably you miss this aim because you don't have
> > readers: you write in Wikipedia in a died language only for you, for
> > your satisfaction.
> >
> > You can have a small number of readers but, probably, if they must
> > choose an article in old Greek, for example, or in their own language,
> > they will choose the second one.
>
> I agree with you, but you should note that the selection of articles is not
> the same in all Wikipedias. It is perfectly plausible that a person who
> knows, for example, Macedonian and old Greek, will be able to gather
> knowledge from old Greek Wikipedia which does not exist in their own
> language, in Macedonian Wikipedia. Note that this will most likely be
> knowledge about old Greek, they are interested in.
>
> As a concrete example, a person who knows Macedonian and Old church
> Slavonic is right now able to read the article about Pope Alexander VI in
> the Old church Slavonic Wikipedia which does not exists in Macedonian
> Wikipedia.

Add to that articles about the Trans-Siberian Railway and birch bark 
documents.