Re "The problem are those people who can't read." One of my concerns is that in setting our target at the world population we inevitably set ourselves up to fail - though I accept that arbitrary minimum reading ages are of little use, and the youngest 10% of a population can mean the under tens or the under 4s.
But I don't think we should be to concerned about literacy by 2050. Someone is bound to have designed a proper speech based interface by then. WereSpielChequers > Message: 8 > Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:14:21 +0200 > From: Thomas Goldammer <tho...@googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <cal0e-kuq2qzzqyvr2ayvy5efxqlynwwcbpfee6k7qcfns7l...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 2011/7/11 emijrp <emi...@gmail.com>: >> @Thomas and @Andre: I know that it is very hard to mantain a Wikipedia in >> 'remote' or 'almost extinct' languages, but, if we don't save as much as we >> can of them (including words, grammar, culture, social values), how are we >> going to offer 'all human knowledge' ? > > We offer this knowledge by having articles about the grammar, culture > and social values of these languages, and by having wiktionary entries > for the words of these languages. We do not need to have the human > knowledge *in* these languages. It would be nice, but it's not > necessary to reach the ultimate goal to offer all human knowledge. > >> >> How many people don't >> understand any Wikipedia today? > > Of those who can read at all, probably much less than 1%. The problem > are those people who can't read. > > Th. > > > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
