[Wikipedia-l] Re: Status of Wikimedia

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Tue Nov 8 18:53:47 UTC 2005


Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) wrote:
> While not being the primary aim, supporting endangered
> languages is one way through which Wikipedia is
> contributing to human knowledge... 

Absolutely!

Please don't mistake anything that I have said as any sort of opposition
to minority languages.  That isn't the point.  The point is that we are
reaching the point where we are getting fairly absurd proposals for
things which are not really minority languages at all, but rather local
dialects.

--Jimbo



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