2009/1/5 Milos Rancic :
> 3. A language with ~1-10M speakers from Sub-Saharan Africa. Such
> language probably has a written form made by some missionaries during
> the past centuries (or a very similar language has a written form
> which may be used). However, the most of the population probably d
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Ting Chen wrote:
> Well, I remember I read some very interesting articles, mainly from
> ethnologists in Scientific American about language conservation.
> Personally I think that language conservation is something that is
> meaningful and should be done. But I have
Well, I remember I read some very interesting articles, mainly from
ethnologists in Scientific American about language conservation.
Personally I think that language conservation is something that is
meaningful and should be done. But I have doubt if WikiMedia can or
should host projects for th
Hoi,
In the Wikimedia Foundation we have a division in projects like Wikipedia,
Wikisource etc. There is no such thing as a compendium and as this is not an
accepted idea. When people ask for a Wikipedia, their request is to write an
encyclopaedia. It is for the volunteers to decide what they want
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> The notion of redundancy of articles in minority languages coming from you
> Milos is painful. There is typically an article of a majority language that
> arguably covers the subject best. All other articles are redundant because
> you can u
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> The notion that a language is moribund is problematic.
A language is moribund as long as no-one speaking natively that
language is objecting. This non-arbitrary definition has become
de-facto standard since the street paving process
Hoi,
The notion of redundancy of articles in minority languages coming from you
Milos is painful. There is typically an article of a majority language that
arguably covers the subject best. All other articles are redundant because
you can use something like Google translate to share the benefit of
I wasn't precise while describing my intention, so I'll try to do it
now with responses to the previous emails.
* About moribund languages: It is not a precise term, but it is
possible to make some description and to realize where are the borders
of the term. For example, a language with ~15.000 s
2009/1/4 Andre Engels :
> As far as I know, _all_ new languages are supposed to show their
> possibility at the incubator nowadays, which to me means that there is
> no need for a separate policy on these languages. My proposal would
> be:
> * Give a warning to the proposer that the language editio
> My proposal is to do the next in the cases of moribund languages:
> * Reject proposal for project creation.
> * Suggesting them to put their language corpus at [multilingual]
> Wikisource.
> * Allowing them to work on Incubator if they really want to spend some
> efforts on language revival.
> *
Hoi,
The notion that a language is moribund is problematic. Choosing a level of
100 speakers is arbitrary, because who says so. The requirements are that
someone who speaks the language natively is part of the starting project is
already tough. When people have created an incubator project, the lan
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> I realized that at Requests for new languages [1] we have a number of
> proposals for projects in moribund languages [2]. In brief, when
> roughly less than 1000 dominantly older persons speak one language,
> this language will be dead when tho
I realized that at Requests for new languages [1] we have a number of
proposals for projects in moribund languages [2]. In brief, when
roughly less than 1000 dominantly older persons speak one language,
this language will be dead when those speakers die. Even some larger
languages [than mentioned o
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