[oculusthrift]

sounds like you guys don't want anything preserved. Questioning both the preservation of dying and popular languages.

The whole point of wikipedia is to preserve everything. Especially since people who speak the language are clearly underserved online.

[mcbits]

It sounds to me like they may not see the value in preserving languages (not "anything"), whether widely spoken or not.

I don't see much value in maintaining the regular, daily use of any particular language, but I see tremendous value in preserving the written works (and nowadays spoken audio) of every language. It provides informative data to anyone seeking to understand language, history, and culture, today and in the future.

For the same reason, I support preserving all source code, even from discontinued or unfinished or shitty software. I have no idea what types of analysis might be possible in 500 years, but I don't want to deny them the opportunity to try it.

[tgb]

You misread me: I passed no judgement value on whether it should be preserved I just asked whether it needed preserving.