[Wikipedia-l] Request for new Wikipedia: Friulian

[Yann Forget]

Hi,

Le Saturday 30 October 2004 08:37, Angela a écrit :
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:20:37 -0700, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>
> I don't feel that one person who admits to being rarely online is
> enough to justify the creation of a new language Wikipedia.
>
> > This would be my third request for an Italian minority language
> > Wikipedia... having requested only a few Wikis, I find it quite
> > strange that three of them should be Italian minority languages (1.
> > Sardinian sc:, 2. Sicilian scn:, 3. Friulian)
>
> Sardinian and Sicilian have only 28 articles between them. The lack of
> success of these so far should be taken into account when deciding
> whether another minority language should be started without a more
> significant number of supporters willing to edit that Wikipedia.
>
> I propose we adopt Wikitravel's policy of requiring at least five
> potential contributors before starting a new language. See
> http://www.wikitravel.org/en/article/Wikitravel:Language_version_policy

Yes, I think also that's a good policy.

> Angela.

Best wishes,
Yann
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