2009/5/31 Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org>: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:34 PM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> There are a number of existing projects to send out school text books. >> An encyclopedia however is a useful part of wider learning. > > > I guess, but a print copy of some subset of Wikipedia doesn't seem like the > best solution for someone who already has access to school textbooks. If > you're talking about a major language, there are already encyclopedias > written for them, and copies can probably be had for much less it would cost > to publish a print edition of Wikipedia.
Evidence? Remember there are rather a lot of major languages where any native speaker well educated and rich enough to actually buy an encyclopedia (even in the west britanica was a middle class symbol) is unlikely to want to buy one in that language. >If you're talking about a minor > language, I don't know. Are there languages for which Wikipedia is > unarguably the best encyclopedia, with enough native speakers to make a > print run feasible, and for which offering an encyclopedia in a non-native > language wouldn't be more effective? Tagalog is the first example that comes to mind. Telugu perhaps but the pro English bias there would be an issue. > Maybe. Want to start that focus group? It's not a focus group issue. It's a document what encyclopedia's actually exist in non European languages issue. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l