Redwolf wrote:
Labhrás wrote:
Well, it's a Wiki. It's easy to change. I (and someone else) did.
Yes, but the people who set it up can also change it back.
Language learning by consensus is a dodgy proposition. How many people internalized the mistakes before they were corrected? This is one of my primary objections to Duolingo as well. It might be one thing if there were no good learning materials out there, but that's not the case.
Redwolf
Yes. That's a problem of all wikis. They work well as long as there's a large community to maintain the articles. (e.g. Wikipedia in major languages)
But what if it tails off?
The introductory pages on Irish (
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Irish) were written or worked on by people like Mhwombat, Panu Höglund or Angr - people having good knowlege in Irish AFAIK (
https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?ti ... on=history). So, readers may expect the same quality level in all other and later contributions, too.
Someone ("Dalta~enwikibooks") added those lessons. At first glance not a so bad idea even for a learner (docendi discimus) in case there are enough co-workers to monitor him. But unfortunately there aren't anymore. He himself has been inactive since 2009. Only minor changes by anonymous contributors have occured since.
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