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Wikipedia in English began in 2001, and some other languages soon joined. The first languages in which an edition of Wikipedia was created back then, and which quickly became successful are languages that had been well-established as a language of literature, government, business, and education: mostly official languages of European countries, as well as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Thai, some languages of India... and not much more. Editions of Wikipedia in most other languages, whether they began in the early 2000s or later, have low activity. There are many reasons for that, but the biggest one is that those languages are not very established as languages of literature, government, business, and education in their countries, even if they have a standardised writing system and even if they are spoken by millions of people. The few people who sincerely work on writing wiki content in those languages and on recruiting more people to do it are heroes, but how could they be supported better? And how could those languages become better established in the world outside Wikimedia projects? This panel will try to present and understand the problem and think about some solutions.
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