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

[Sarah Stierch]

I think the talk page for the proposal would be a brilliant place to
discuss concerns and suggestions.

Just sayin' :)

-Sarah


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hoi,
> The one thing I am really interested in learning is how information about
> and content in a specific languages will be handled.
>
> Information about is likely to be in another language, consequently WHAT
> language. Content could be in something like Wikisource / Wikibooks.
> Thanks,
>       Gerard
>
>
> On 18 February 2013 22:57, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > geni
> >
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