Language fallback to Spanish (es)

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Thanks, that's useful. You mean the 14,7 % for "Elebidun hartzaileak"? What does the term mean?

Now what makes you think that the people knowing English are more than 85 %?

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Even if those numbers where made up numbers (I don't mean they are). I think is more likely for a Basque/French speaking user to be fluent in English than in Spanish, so I agree that Spanish should not be the fallback language.

Arraintxo (talk)‎

I'm sorry but it's extremely unlikely that more than 85 % of the inhabitants knows English. The average for Spain is 24 % and for France 39 %.

This is not about inhabitants, but about users. And basque language users don't use Wikimedia projects because they don't know spanish/french, but because they want to use it in Basque. So if something is not in Basque language they will [politically, socially, technically] understand having it in English better than reading it in Spanish/French. If they wanted to have sentences in Spanish they would read in Spanish in first order, as most of them know the language.

Theklan (talk)‎

Presumably the wikis exist to get more users from people/inhabitants, no?

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