Hoi,
Macro languages are nicely defined. They are languages that used to be
recognised at one time as a single language but are found to be a
combination of multiple languages. Kicking the idea of macro-languages is
daft; it is not only a result of the work of SIL it is more the consequence
of the work of the maintainers of the iso-639-1 and the iso-639-3.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 10 July 2011 21:28, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This time I've cleaned the list of Wikimedia [content] projects from
> meta:Special:SiteMatrix [1] and calculated some numbers [2].
>
> So, for statistics, there are:
> * 270 Wikimedia languages (however, you would see below that the term
> "language" is not quite precise)
> * 270 Wikipedias
> * 146 Wiktionaries
> * 83 Wikibooks
> * 29 Wikinews
> * 67 Wikiquotes
> * 58 Wikisources
> * 12 Wikiversities
> * 665 total content projects
>
> There are:
> * 12 languages with all 7 projects
> * 16 languages with 6 projects (usually without Wikiversity)
> * 22 languages with 5 projects (usually without Wikiversity and Wikinews)
> * 16 languages with 4 projects
> * 24 languages with 3 projects
> * 59 languages with 2 projects
> * 121 languages with 1 project
> * 19 languages with all projects "closed".
>
> Note that just small number (if any) of closed projects are actually
> closed. The most of them is possible to edit.
>
> Interesting part in this part of statistics [3] is that Wikimedia
> projects are by number of projects dominated by languages with smaller
> number of projects. 121 languages with just one project (up to now
> exclusively Wikipedia) have 44.81% share in the number of Wikimedia
> languages, but also 18.20% share in the number of all Wikimedia
> projects (which is the biggest share).
>
> Fortunately, Wikimedia projects are dominated by individual living
> languages [4]: 240 of 270 languages.
>
> 22 of the rest of Wikimedia languages are treated [by SIL] as
> "macrolanguages". That definition is vague: from practically the same
> languages up to the groups which could be treated as language family.
> Anyway, it says that we have a number of not solved issues related to
> the projects which serve multiple languages.
>
> We have 8 Wikipedias in constructed languages, 5 in historical, 3 in
> dialects or different written forms, 2 in individual living languages
> but without ISO 639 codes, and one in revived language (Manx).
>
> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix
> [2]
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias/List_of_Wikimedia_projects
> [3]
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias/List_of_Wikimedia_projects#Number_of_Wikimedia_projects_per_language
> [4]
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias/List_of_Wikimedia_projects#Number_of_Wikimedia_projects_per_language_type
>
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