Mark Williamson wrote:
Hi all.
Just a short question:
Why is it that we have a Wikipedia for the ancient, dead language
Aramaic
http://arc.wikipedia.org/ - no content currently, but none for
its modern descendent Syriac (or "Neo-Aramaic"), spoken by millions,
which according to the ISO code would be at
http://syr.wikipedia.org/
?
There's no particular pattern to the creation of inactive wikis. To save
server resources, inactive wikis, with no edits, should be deleted. It
was my intention to delete inactive wikis when I wrote the automatic
wiki creation script, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
If you want a Syriac wiki, I suggest you find some Syriac speakers to
write it, instead of troubling this list with speculation and linguistic
trivia.
-- Tim Starling