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Re:Can Wikipedia Survive? by thanksgiving on Saturday June 20, 2015 @10:00PM (#9751815)
The English Wikipedia has a lot of contributors but smaller siblings such as new.wikipedia do not have this luxury. To be fair though, the problem isn't unique to Wikipedia as few people read and write in the language.

https://new.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=special:RecentCha...

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Re:Can Wikipedia Survive? by prodigal_erik on Saturday June 20, 2015 @10:24PM (#9751889)
Off topic, I get why ne.wikipedia.org is in Nepali, but why does new.wikipedia.org have different content in the same language?
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Re:Can Wikipedia Survive? by pooper on Saturday June 20, 2015 @11:08PM (#9751988)
new is nepal bhasa or NEWari which is the language of the Nepal valley (also commonly known as Kathmandu valley).
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Re:Can Wikipedia Survive? by prodigal_erik on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:27PM (#9774613)
Ah, different language, same script. TIL.
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Re:Can Wikipedia Survive? by thanksgiving on Saturday June 27, 2015 @09:20PM (#9792071)
There is Ranjana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjana_alphabet and Devnagari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari

From what I understand, language and alphabets are related but not the same. For example, you can write in Japanese with roman alphabets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese

Thus, it is possible to write in Newari (also known as Nepal Bhasa which literally translates to Nepal Language) in devnagari as well as ranjana.

I cannot read or write in Ranjana. I can read or write Devnagari.

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