Allow--indeed, encourage--for every language in which there's enough
of a community to support it. How large a community is needed is the
only real question.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:04 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 29/03/2008, Ben McIlwain <cydeweys(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Certainly not in every extinct language. But
whether the language is
extinct or not is largely irrelevant; what really matters is whether
there would be a large enough community to sustain a Wikipedia in that
language. If it's an extinct language that doesn't have a lot of
support and the wiki would languish in obscurity, don't create a new
Wikipedia for it. If it's an extinct language with widespread interest
and the potential for a large community (such as Latin, which I see we
already have), go for it.
That would probably apply well to conlangs as well. Esperanto has a
vast interest and support base, Volapuk ... doesn't really.
- d.
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