[WikiEN-l] Unnecessary Wikipedia languages

[aliasd]

Well, this is an old argument....

I know some manufactured language Wikipedias have been moved to Wikia, such
as Toki Pona and Klingon, But I don't see a real case for moving away real
genuine languages. You are talking about moving them, aren't you? Not just
deleting entire wikipedias?

I tend to think that removing a dialect Wikipedia to try and force editors
onto the "main language" Wikipedia is for a great many reasons a bad idea.
If these editors wanted to contribute more tot he other project, so be it.
If you start removing languages, where do you stop?

If there is a case, however for moving or deleting a particular wiki, that
is a meta discussion anyway. It has been done before, it probably will be
done again. This is the wrong forum though.

-aliasd

On Jan 18, 2008 3:24 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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