2011/7/11 Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> > > Note that estimates from the past (and likely from the present) count > that no language with less than 1M of speakers would survive 2050. > > If Wikimedia projects and WMF leave to die 90% (or 80%, or 70%, or 60%) of current languages in the next 40 years (we will be alive to see it, probably), then both are failures.
Look this: * http://blog.archive.org/2011/01/30/digitizing-all-balinese-literature/ * http://www.archive.org/details/Bali And compare http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ban Partnership between Internet Archive and Wikimedia Foundation is mandatory. Second one has to learn a lot of the first one. IA has a small staff too[1] (WMF boasts about that), but they are doing much more to preserve and spread knowledge than Wiki[mp]edia projects. Unfortunately they are only on the 213 of Alexa ranking. [1] http://www.archive.org/about/bios.php _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
