[Wikipedia-l] Re: Starting a new language: Upper Sorbian

Tue Apr 6 05:13:33 UTC 2004

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 at telus.net> wrote in
message news:407175E4.7050500 at telus.net...
> Andre Engels wrote:
>
> >It varies, but then, it also varies for some much larger languages
(Marathi
> >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