[Foundation-l] Umberto Eco on small languages/dialects Wikipedias (Aristotle article)

[Mark Williamson]

We have heard this type of criticism before, that lower-prestige
varieties or languages that are not "official" or "national" languages
are somehow intrinsically incapable or unsuited to encyclopedic
writing. Article quality on a Wiki is not high or low due to some
intrinsic characteristic or trait of the language variety used, it is
a result of the content not being well-developed. Also, many languages
in a relatively small territory does not mean living in a ghetto; on
the contrary, count how many national languages there are in Europe,
then count how many across all of Latin America, then take a look at
economic indicators and you'll see that there is no necessary
correlation between linguistic diversity and poverty.

-m.

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suppose you may be interested:
> http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio/el-me-aristotil/2134379/18
> But, don't expect it to be an actual usable judgement about those
> projects, because it's more like a pretext to comment some recent
> Italian events.
> A Google translation to English contains "only" 2-3 completely wrong
> sentences.
>
> Nemo
>
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