[Foundation-l] Klassical Chinese

Sat Sep 6 21:35:37 UTC 2008

On Friday 05 September 2008 19:34:05 geni wrote:
> 2008/9/5 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>:
> > On Thursday 04 September 2008 18:08:28 geni wrote:
> >> A slight problem is that it can be argued that Wikipedia's core
> >> mission is best filled by active language destruction.
> >
> > The fact that it can be argued still doesn't mean that there it is even a
> > remote possibility for it to be correct.
>
> Okey lets take a real world example then. Which is going to take less
> resources translating 2.5 million articles into the Fayu language or
> teaching what's left of the Fayu English? Which is going to create
> longer term benefits. Providing the Fayu with wikipedia in Fayu or a
> teaching them to speak English which will allow them to access a
> broader range of sources and knowledge.

Without knowing Fayu, the Fayu would no longer be Fayu, and so the value of 
knowledge to the Fayu would be exactly zero.