[Foundation-l] Fwd: NYTimes.com: African Languages Grow as a Wikipedia Pr...

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Delirium wrote:
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>>A non-paternalistic attitude would be to treat African languages like we 
>>treat all other languages.  Even though quite a few Westerners are 
>>interested in the subject of spreading information in China, for 
>>example, the Chinese-language projects have been run by Chinese speakers.
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>Ok.  But that's because there *is* a Chinese community, quite healthy 
>and active.
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>It is a bit harder when, 5 years on, we seen little signs of life, and 
>some good ideas about why we don't see signs of life.  In such cases, I 
>think it is not paternalistic to think about how we can proactively help 
>to create a community there.  A community, I hasten to add, of native 
>speakers.
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Yep.

>--Jimbo
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