[Wikimedia-l] New proposal for a wiki Project!

[geni]

On 18 February 2013 16:33, Kevin Behrens <kevin_behrens at hotmail.de> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have started a proposal for a new wiki project: WikiLang (meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLang). It is about endangered languages and >language documentation/decipherment. It is a very important step in order to save our linguistic diversity which is ongoing faster than >the extinction of animals.

Why? Most of the languages in question have so little information
stored in them that even if we assume a total loss of that information
(which is unlikely) that downside will be massively outweighed by the
upside of easier communication between people.

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geni