What would be the purpose of suspending them? I would suggest we manualy
remove links to inactive wikipedia's and when somebody is ready to revive
them then he/she will find everything ready. Lithuanian wikipedia has been
inactive for about 6 months and now is starting to get more wikipedians and
finally reached 100 pages. If editing it would have been "suspended" or
otherwise complicated the chances of revival are pretty low. As inactive
wikipedia dont take space I don't see any reason to suspend or close
inactive one as wikipedia is atracting more and more users and some of them
will probably try to revive inactive wikipedias.
"Ray Saintonge" <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote in
message news:407175E4.7050500@telus.net...
Andre Engels wrote:
>It varies, but then, it also varies for some much larger languages
with 65 million
speakers has only 4 pages, for example). There's four
Wikipedia languages with less than 100.000 speakers, none of them getting
anywhere serious, however the fifth smallest language (Icelandic, 250.000
speakers) managed to get to a number of 9 Wikipedians (with 10 or more
logged-in edits), and is seriously trying to make something.
Wikipedia languages with less than 1 million speakers:
speakers Wikipedians pages
Manx 250 0 1
Nauruan 7.000 2 16
Maori 50.000 0 8
Scottish 60.000 1 14
Icelandic 250.000 9 209
Irish 260.000 3 62
Corsican 340.000 0 14
Occitan 350.000 7 493
Welsh 600.000 9 954
Basque 600.000 5 2319
Frisian 700.000 9 881
Regretably, in a few instances the proponents start the wiki in their
language just to see if it can be done. When they have immediate
success, they lose interest. I suppose that a seriously inactive
Wikipedia could be put into suspense, and the work that has already been
done could be revived if there is a renewed interest. From the above
list Manx, Maori, and Corsican would be candidates for suspension
depending on how long since their last activity.
There would need to be a prominent mention somewhere (perhaps after the
list of active pedias) inviting people to breathe life back into them.
Ec