Unicode support is not that big of a deal. It's growing all the time, and the Unicode standard itself is ahead of Wikipedia and will likely remain ahead of it for a while. The operating systems' actual support for it is far from perfect, but it isn't a huge in itself either.
Existence of written works is not a problem in itself at all. Theoretically, a Wikipedia can be written completely based on foreign-language sources. The challenge is to actually get people who speak languages that don't have written works to start creating the first written work. It's not impossible, but it's culturally challenging.
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2014-04-22 16:51 GMT+03:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emijrp@gmail.com:
How many languages exist? |_ How many languages have written works? |_How many languages have UNICODE support?
That is the max number of Wikisource projects we can create :-P
2014-04-22 15:12 GMT+02:00 Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com
wrote:
That means that it's the best starting point to raise that number from 157 per million to ~1000 per million. If WM UK would be successful in achieving that goal, we'd know that it's possible. And we'll have some ideas how to do that.
In real numbers: We need there 100 active editors.
Sorry, 70.
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