"Peter Jaros" <rjaros(a)shaysnet.com> schrieb:
Actually, I
think these might be too inclusive when looking at dead
languages. While I am all for the Latin Wikipedia, and would not mind
a Sanskrit one, Hittite or Sumerian are another matter. Many dead
languages are only in passive use, and to exclude those, I would
like to restrict ourselves to those languages in which (new) documents
have been written within the last 50 years or so.
I agree instinctively with your point, but I must ask: why exactly? If
a group
of speakers can maintain a Wikipedia in that language, isn't that
requirement
enough?
Yes, that should be enough, but I think it would be good to get prima
facie evidence that they can. And such evidence would I think best be
"Well, we (or others) have already written articles in this language."
Andre Engels