[Wikipedia-l] Re: Tibetan Wikipedia

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Mark Williamson a écrit:

> In addition, I have personally found so far that there are at least a
> few Wikipedias where we already have Wikipedians who are fluent in the
> language but do not contribute to it because they either don't know of
> its existance or are busier with another Wikipedia. This is true with
> some of the Wikipedias in South African languages (people contribute
> instead to the English or Afrikaans Wikipedias), some of the
> Wikipedias in Indic languages (people mostly contribute to hi: and ur:
> instead of their local language with the major exceptions being ta:,
> kn:, and ks: and to a smaller degree a couple of others), European
> minority languages (I have a strong suspicion that there are at least
> a couple of speakers of French minority languages on the French
> Wikipedia who do not contribute to that Wikipedia, same with Russian
> and Italian minority languages, and with Saami speakers on
> Scandinavian-language Wikipedias). The problem of simple lack of
> awareness would be fairly easy to remedy, but if somebody doesn't want
> to work on a Wikipedia in their own language, there is no forcing
> them.
> 
> Mark

Since I started on a small wikipedia nearly 3 years ago, I can say it 
clearly. Working nearly alone on a small wiki is rather boring. Little 
feedback, little interaction. Most people dont find that fun. I waited 
that more people join fr to really start working on it.