[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Quenya language request, and Chinese Wikipedia again

[Delirium]

Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:

>If there is a significant population of people who can not read/write
>standard written Chinese, but *can* read/write Cantonese in some
>writing system that is different, then I want to learn about that,
>because that would be a very compelling factor in the other direction.
>  
>
Well, it shouldn't be necessary that they *can't* read/write standard 
written Chinese, merely that they there's some significant population 
that prefers another writing system.  We don't shut down the Irish 
Wikipedia just because nearly all Irish speakers can also speak English 
(and in fact a large majority speak primarily English)---the fact that 
there are people who can read/write Irish and wish to do so is sufficient.

-Mark