Berber isn't a unitary or standardised language. As far as I'm aware, we have a WP in one of the Berber languages only right now, Kabyle: http://kab.wikipedia.org/
Mark skype: node.ue On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:50 AM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/5/31 Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu>: >> Given currently existing technology, and technology that we can reasonably >> assume to be available within the next decade, how can the WMF best achieve >> its goal of giving every person free access to our current best summary of >> all human knowledge? > > > Dead tree technology. Wikipedia based encyclopedias in the most widely > used languages. > > Select the 40K most important articles (that will be fun). 40K was > 2002 encarta and most people I knew who used it felt that that was a > fairly complete encyclopedia. There are a number of languages with > less than 40K articles. The problem ones are: > > Bengali (19K) > Hindi (32K) > Punjabi (1.4K) > Javanese (19K) > Tamil (18K) > Marathi (23K) > Sindhi (.3K) very low > I'm not sure there is a Berber language wikipedia. Can't find it nor a > Tamazight one. Anyone know what's going on here? > Oriya (.5K) again very low > Kannada (6K) > Azeri (20K) > Sundanese (14K) > Hausa (.1K) very low > Pashto (1.3K) although you might have a hard time finding volunteers > to distribute anything in those areas. > Uzbek (7K) > Yoruba (6K) > Amharic (3K) > > Strangely Telugu and Malayalam do break the 40K barrier. > > > I've not included the various Chinese languages in this list because I > don't understand how spoken languages map to written languages in > china. > > Now a lot of those languages are Indian which since they tend to be > fairly closely related and bilingualism is fairly common Bengali, > Hindi, Punjabi and English should cover most cases. > > So how to fill the gaps? Auto translation is one option but not one I > like.. Seeing if we can obtain funding to pay people to write articles > is another. > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l