On 30 September 2011 13:26, Richard Symonds <chasemewiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It also gives us the benefit of government support for
those languages - as
with, for example, the Catalan Wikipedia, which is encouraged rather a lot
by the regional government. I wouldn't be surprised if the Welsh Wikipedia
was the largest general reference work ever written in that language.
True. There are definitely grants available for projects benefiting
the Welsh language, and those are probably among the easiest grants
for us to get. The rest of our work can then benefit from the
economies of scale you get by doing more stuff. I'm not sure we would
be able to get similar grants for Scots or Scottish Gaelic (there
probably are grants from Gaelic, but not anywhere near as many as for
Welsh).