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

[Claus Färber]

Nathan schrieb:
> 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. I wouldn't object to a wiki of a type "Wikilang" if the idea
> is only to save the crucial and various aspects of the language 
> itself for historical purposes in a way not conducive to a Wikipedia
> article, but a full Wikipedia or other project seems unnecessary.

I think that depends on the project. A Wikipedia needs more people that
actively support it (i.e. write articles) than a Wikinews project, which
needs more people than a Wikisource project.

IMO, it does not make sense to create projects in languages that have
too few speakers to make it viable. If a language has only 10000
speakers (native or second-language), there's no way they can produce a
full encyclopaedia in that language. However, it only takes a
few enthusiastic individuals to create a Wikinews project. A Wikisource
project would only need a single person who archives free texts.

Claus