On 30 September 2011 13:04, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Indeed. Part of the issue there is that the number is diminishing so > much that there aren't enough speakers left to really produce a good > encyclopaedia (there's something like 60,000 global speakers). The > problem is even more apparent when you realise that what speakers > there are tend to be a lot older than our core contributing > demographic.
The whole point is that encouraging minority language wikipedias helps revitalise the language. These wikipedias will never compete with enwp for completeness, but you only need a handful of good wikipedians who are fluent in the language to be able to produce a reasonable number of good quality articles, which can have a beneficial impact on increasing language acquisition amongst the young, which in turn will tend to increase the number of contributors in that language as time goes on. Andrew [[User:BabelStone]] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
