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Revision as of 16:15, 21 June 2006
I am Steinbach, formerly Caesarion. I am more or less active on several Wikipedias and some test-Wikipedias here. I am a sysop on the Dutch, Limburgic and West Frisian Wikipedias. Typically I am known under different aliases on various Wikipedias, though I am currently diminishing their number (see below).
I'm here on meta just because I have a child-like adoration of languages and multilingualism. I used to frequent, almost inhabit, the Requests for new languages page. I am an Aspergerian and I am Dutch. These are my chief abberations. I am neither able nor willing to change either ;-).
I'm much involved in creating Wikipedias for lesser languages, especially the West Germanic ones. To see how bad it is, just take a look here, or here.
If you have some time to spare and are unexpectedly interested in me, you can read my user pages at several wikis (warning: Not all user pages contain much valuable information).
Or otherwise take a look at my personal hobby horse: a List of languages most in need of a Wikipedia.
In ten years or less...
- All languages with over half a million speakers will have their own wikis and possibly all with more than 100,000 speakers as well.
- All languages in Europe, however small or endangered, will have their own Wikipedias, and most of them will be large enough to serve as real encyclopedias.
- All of the wikis in the major languages of India will have reached the size of big (>100,000) Wikipedias.
- The major African languages will, due to increased prosperity, finally have picked up their Wikipedias.
- Native American emancipation will have caused the NA language Wikipedias to grow.
- A few Indigenous Australian languages will also have their own Wikipedias.
- There will be no official languages without Wikipedias.
- The English Wikipedia, however, will be a highly unpleasant environment by then, and its success will have passed the top by long.