[WikiEN-l] Unnecessary Wikipedia languages

[Casey Brown]

Many of the wikis you are probably referring to where created before
the "new" language creation policy and committee, but the current
policy can be viewed at Meta:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy>.

That's what we have for *new* wikis, there isn't really a policy for
closing *old* ones, we just have "proposals" that get voted upon on
Meta: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects>.
 The normal criteria for closing wikis is "inactive and only being
filled up by spambots".  Otherwise, it's more like what David said: if
they want to write in a language for a wiki that's already been
created, more power to them. :-)

On Jan 17, 2008 11:24 PM, Ian A Holton <poeloq at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure this is the right list for this, but I've been thinking
> about this for awhile now. Surely, some languages that Wikipedia is
> offered in are unnecessary and obsolete. For example Gothic and
> Allemanisch and many other German dialects. Anybody who can uses
> Wikipedia in a German dialacet spoken in Germany can also at least read
> standard German.
>
> Why am I against such languages? A) They are an additional cost and
> Wikipedia isn't exactly swimming in money and B) the contributors of
> these Wikipedias would be making contributions to the larger more
> popular and also more necessary standard version of the language. I know
> this from several cases that good editors switched from Standard German
> to their local dialect, for "a laugh".
>
> Of course, this doesn't apply to all dialects and all dead languages.
> Latin for example is still used in academic circles and is therefor not
> dead in my opinion. However, I don't see many people writing in Goth
> anymore.
>
> What is the general opinion on this, am I alone in thinking that this is
> maybe an issue that needs to be addressed?
>
> Ian [[User:Poeloq]], who is running the risk of making some enemies ;-)
>
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