[Wikipedia-l] Request for new Wikipedia: Friulian

[Mark Williamson]

What people aren't realising is that there are people already supporting them.

sc: I just requested because I thought it should exist, and I learned from that.

scn: however had an entire community that pledged to help work on it,
and that's why I requested it.

Friulian had the support of two Wikipedians, and that's why I requested it.

I wouldn't request a Welsh Wikipedia just because I "like welsh" or
something. I'd only request it if some people or a community had
expressed interest and pledged some level of support if it were to be
created.

-Mark

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:09:25 -0500, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
> 
> >If you think I go around selecting random languages to request new
> >Wikipedias for, then you are very very very wrong. Before I do
> >anything like that, I make sure there is at least one potential
> >contributor, and preferrably more or some community involvement.
> >
> >
> There does seem to be an odd mismatch in that you have no personally
> ability to speak these languages.  I'd wager that were these requests
> coming from people who *actually speak the languages*, they would be
> taken more seriously.  When that has happened, as with Welsh, there were
> no arguments over creating the Wikipedia for that language.
> 
> -Mark
> 
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