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

[theo10011]

There is however a direct correlation between poverty and internet
access. Regardless of the linguistic diversity, its an issue of usage, the
highest read, reviewed and edited articles would have the highest merits in
terms of quality and length. It is an issue of reflexivity, lots of
contributors means lots of eyes viewing the same content which means that it
would be corrected and edited by the largest population. This is the reason
why English language Wikipedia has the largest and highest rated articles
compared to any other language because its written and viewed by the single
largest contributor group.

Theo


On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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