[Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages

[M. Williamson]

By hopefully having a Wikipedia in all 700 languages that will be around
then.

Language death makes me really sad, and there are lots of things that are
being done about it, and more should be done, but I'm not sure it's the
Foundation's job, just like it's not our job to save endangered species
(there are lots of great organizations working on both problems already).

2011/7/11 emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com>

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language
>
> "It is believed that 90% of the circa 7,000 languages currently spoken in
> the world will have become extinct by 2050, as the world's language system
> has reached a crisis and is dramatically restructuring."
>
> How is Wikipedia going to affect this language disaster? WMF 2050 goals
> ideas : ) ?
>
> 2011/7/11 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>
>
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 21:28, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > * 270 Wikimedia languages (however, you would see below that the term
> > > "language" is not quite precise)
> >
> > One note: there are 270 languages counting Simple English as a
> > constructed/controlled language. If it isn't counted, there are 269
> > languages.
> >
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