[Foundation-l] New projects opened

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 19:33:23 UTC 2009


Hoi,
I know that the information provided by Erik Zachte will provide ample
information about that ....
Thanks,
     Geard

2009/8/21 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>

> Svip wrote:
> >
> > I guess I am too busy maintaining my own wiki as well.  Maybe a choice
> > to attract editors would be similar to that of the Swedish and
> > Norwegian wikis.  That, and I'd like to see more appreciation of the
> > Danish language from the Danes themselves.  I hear Dutch is under the
> > same criticism from the Dutch themselves.
> >
> >
>
> This is interesting. My understanding is that even compared
> to the Danes, the Dutch are hugely internationally minded.
>
> In Science Fiction fandom circles I have heard of an "8person
> rule of thumb" (though I admit the rule may hive more general
> application within Dutch society) - whereby within spoken
> communication situations, if there is one native English speaker
> present, there have to be at least 8Dutch speakers present,
> before even the most private comments by the Dutch speakers
> will be made in Dutch.
>
> It would be a genuinely useful data point to see how the Dutch
> language wikipedia compares to any possible wikipedias of
> similar number of native speakers in terms of breadth and
> size, where the languages compared against do not have this
> strong tradition of internationalism.
>
>
> Yours,
>
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>
>
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