[Foundation-l] Allow new wikis in extinct languages?

[Delirium]

Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> 2008/3/29, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>:
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>> If the purpose of a Wikipedia or wiki in general is to communicate
>> information...
>> then creating a wiki to serve a small group of people who are already
>> fluent
>> in
>> other major languages does not serve the purpose.
>>     
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> Not quite that. Nearly every Sorabian speaks German, but the Sorabians do
> have a linguistic community that has activities. A Wikipedia in that case
> makes very much sense. - Don't forget that a language is more than a tool to
> communicate, it also deals with identity.
>   
That's the crux of the question, though---is supporting linguistic 
identity, even in cases where it doesn't serve to communicate 
information to a wider range of people, a goal of the Wikimedia 
foundation? Some interpretations of the mission statement have said no.

-Mark