[Foundation-l] Klassical Chinese

[Ting Chen]

Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> On Friday 05 September 2008 18:46:32 Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
>   
>>> Yes, I think at this point we agree each other. Maybe we could consider
>>> a project category, whose purpose is the conservation of languages. As I
>>> wrote in a reply to Tim earlier I think MediaWiki can help a lot. But it
>>> must not be a Wikipedia.
>>>       
>> Actually, this category has been discussed a countless number of times,
>> and most often under a name of "wikicompendium". It would be good, for
>> instance, for minor languages, where there may be not enough speakers to
>> support a wikipedia and not so many sources to support a wikiquote or a
>> wikisource, but if you put them all in one basket it may be a project with
>> a chance to survive. The same is with the dead languages (with an obvious
>> exception for latin, which is good enough to support all the projects),
>> and possibly even with conlangs.
>>     
>
> The problem is, that Wikipedia is by far and wide the most well-known name of 
> all Wikimedia projects. Naming a project "Wikicompendium" would hurt 
> recognition of the project, while naming it "Wikipedia" would help, and 
> shouldn't hurt Wikipedia's recognition, even if technically it's not an 
> encyclopedia.
>   
That's true. But on the other hand, such a project is not for attracting 
a lot of people. It is a place for people to do conservation works for a 
small or already dead language. It would by nature not have a lot of 
editors and users. Maybe only the ethmologists who are doing the 
conservation works.

Ting