[Foundation-l] Fwd: Tokipona

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.yu
Tue Jan 22 07:17:18 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 22 January 2008 01:15, Andre Engels wrote:
> It seems to me that I'm looking at it the same way. What I'm saying is
> that people whose first language is English, or some other language
> that has a Wikipedia considerably larger than Esperanto, does not
> really benefit from having an Esperanto Wikipedia, even if they have
> Esperanto as their second language. On the other hand, someone whose
> first language Wikipedia is comparable in size or smaller than the
> Esperanto one does benefit from having an Esperanto Wikipedia if that
> is their second language, because it significantly increases the
> amount of information they can find on Wikipedia in one of their
> favorite languages, even if it's not the first.

Do not assume that because English Wikipedia is the biggest, it has all the 
information. There is information on Esperanto Wikipedia that does not exist 
on English Wikipedia.




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