Daniel Mayer ti 2004/11/1 EP 01:52 sia-kong:
Requiring a translated interface up-front might also be a good idea. It would show that at least one person is very commited.
Not necessarily. It would probably only show that a language is lucky enough to have a Wikipedian who is somewhat familiar with the interface, or else someone with the know-how to install MediaWiki locally and play with it until she or he is sufficiently familiar with it to do the translation.
Conceivably, however, a new language WP might be founded by _newly minted_ Wikipedians. I was one such Wikipedian; I learned as I went and eventually translated most of zh-min-nan.