Greetings LangCom,

Perhaps this is something worthy of a more clear and official response. User is asking about the possibility of an Old Norse Wikipedia, GerardM responds advising that extinct languages are generally not eligible for Wikipedia language editions, but however Old English Wikipedia does exist (AngWiki at https://ang.wikipedia.org). I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation and it may be worth spelling out said explanations to explain what looks like an inconsistency in policy.

Apologies is this is already covered somewhere on a Meta policy page, if so then it would be a net benefit to provide a link to the page explaining why some extinct languages are okay and others are not. 

Cheers all,


Ben Landry
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From: Kräfta <drakegemini664@gmail.com>
Sent: July 15, 2021 4:07 AM
To: Ben Salvidrim <salvidrim@salvidrim.net>
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Norse?
 
Thanks! Although, there is an Old English edition of Wikipedia 

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, 7:21 pm Ben Salvidrim, <salvidrim@salvidrim.net> wrote:
Your request was for a "Old Norse wikipedia page"; Wikipedia does in fact have an article about the Old Norse language in several editions, including English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse

If you were in fact asking about having an edition of Wikipedia written in the Old Norse language, then Gerard's response explains that we don't generally create new Wikipedia editions in extinct languages.


Ben Landry
Salvidrim

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From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
Sent: July 14, 2021 10:41 AM
To: Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Norse?
 
Hoi,
The existing policy of the Language Committee does not allow for extinct
languages. Sorry but no.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 16:07, Kräfta <drakegemini664@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am wondering about the creation of an Old Norse wikipedia page?
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