Clearly, at least at this point, it is probably unreasonable to target any languages with less than 100,000 native speakers; of course, if there is community interest I think they should get Wikipedias, but the 70 million or so human beings who speak languages with less than 100k speakers are likely to be either 1) fluent in a language with more speakers or 2) live in such isolation that it is unlikely they would use Wikipedia, at least at this point in time.
2011/5/23 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>: > More data. This is about all living languages, just to get a clue about > what is reasonable to do and what is not. > > Number of languages and number of speakers for languages categorized by > number of speakers (you can get more nice wikitable at [1]): > > category: number of languages, total number of speakers > 100M+: 17, 2514548848 > 10M-99M: 78, 2376900757 > 1M-9M: 303, 950166458 > 100k-999k: 900, 284119716 > 10k-99k: 1837, 61223297 > 1k-9k: 2025, 7823891 > 100-999: 1039, 460911 > 10-99: 343, 12664 > 1-9: 134, 528 > all: 6677, 6195257070 > > [1] > http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias/Languages_and_numbers > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
