Agreed.

2017-01-21 15:08 GMT+01:00 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>:

> We have the second request for the Wikipedia in Dalmatian [1]. Unlike
> the first one [2], this is factually valid, as it's about the request
> for a Romance language edition, not a Slavic language edition.
>
> However, it's about a dead language. They say there are ~20 people
> speaking Dalmatian, but the educational value of Wikipedia edition in
> Dalmatian is zero. Unlike with a few languages of the Baltic (Baltic
> and Uralic), where possibility for a legitimate revival is possible
> inside of the population which ancestors have spoken the language, I
> see this at this point of time as pure hobbyist work.
>
> If they create a valid pool of native speakers (a couple of them, at
> least), they could come again and request Wikipedia in their language
> again.
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_
> languages/Wikipedia_Dalmatian_2
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_
> languages/Wikipedia_Dalmatian
>
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