[Wikipedia-l] Edits by project and country of origin

[David Gerard]

On 04/09/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are some 231 living languages spoken in Australia. I think English is
> the only one that has it's Wikipedia.


If you mean the native languages, the problem is that a lot of them
weren't written until recently, not many are used for any academic
purpose (though some notably are) and orthographies vary widely. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_of_Australian_Aboriginal_languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_sign_languages

So what we need for a Wikipedia is a few people who speak the
languages and want to do a Wikipedia of a language.


- d.