[Foundation-l] New projects opened

[Gerard Meijssen]

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I answered too quickly ... information in his upcoming Wikimania
presentation ....
Thanks,
      Gerard

2009/8/21 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>

> Hoi,
> I know that the information provided by Erik Zachte will provide ample
> information about that ....
> Thanks,
>      Geard
>
> 2009/8/21 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
>
>> Svip wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I guess I am too busy maintaining my own wiki as well.  Maybe a choice
>> > to attract editors would be similar to that of the Swedish and
>> > Norwegian wikis.  That, and I'd like to see more appreciation of the
>> > Danish language from the Danes themselves.  I hear Dutch is under the
>> > same criticism from the Dutch themselves.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> This is interesting. My understanding is that even compared
>> to the Danes, the Dutch are hugely internationally minded.
>>
>> In Science Fiction fandom circles I have heard of an "8person
>> rule of thumb" (though I admit the rule may hive more general
>> application within Dutch society) - whereby within spoken
>> communication situations, if there is one native English speaker
>> present, there have to be at least 8Dutch speakers present,
>> before even the most private comments by the Dutch speakers
>> will be made in Dutch.
>>
>> It would be a genuinely useful data point to see how the Dutch
>> language wikipedia compares to any possible wikipedias of
>> similar number of native speakers in terms of breadth and
>> size, where the languages compared against do not have this
>> strong tradition of internationalism.
>>
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>>
>>
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