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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
You attempt to answer a question that is not asked. The question is about
Wikis not about Wikipedia.
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Claus Färber <GMANE at faerber.muc.de> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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