[Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

[Delirium]

Fajro wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:08 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No. You can argue for the tolerance of minority languages but actively
>> promoting them conflicts with Wikimedia's stated objectives.
> 
> How?
> 
> Do you edit wikipedia to give "Free Access To All Human Knowledge"
> only to the educated elite?

It seems to me that this would differ greatly depending on the minority 
language. Some minority languages, despite being "minority", have 
millions of monolingual speakers. Clearly if these people are going to 
get Wikipedia's information without learning a new language, we need a 
good Wikipedia in that language, because otherwise the information is 
not available in a language they can understand.

But other minority languages have few to no monolingual speakers; some 
barely have any native speakers at all. The presence or absence of a 
Wikipedia in those language is more of an issue of language politics and 
language preservation than actual dissemination of an encyclopedia's 
contents.

-Mark