Actually, Slovio is not a good example. That project has been dead for almost seven years now, and even before that, it never had more than about one dozen of people who could use it to some degree.

As for Interslavic, perhaps one the long term it would be possible, but at present I don't think the language would be ready for it. And now that I think of this, here comes my fourth requirement:
d) The language should be STABLE.

If a language is in full development, the odds are that at some point the author(s) decide to make improvements in vocabulary, grammar and/or orthography, which would immediately invalidate all previously written material. That's something we can't have. Even the differences between two versions of Novial have been a bit of a problem on the Novial Wikipedia. Volapük is another example of a language that exists in two versions.

These are problems that can and will be fixed with time. But the problem of a small vocabulary cannot. In the case of Klingon, there is only one person who is entitled to coin new words, which happens scarcely. At present, the dictionary contains ca. 3000 words, in other words, not even a fifth of what would be needed for the purposes of an encyclopedia. In the case of Quenya, the situation is even more complicated. AFAIK Tolkien himself left us ca. 2500 words (Sindarin even less). There is a community of people who coin new words, but the non-canonical words are not recognised by everybody. All in all, creating a Wikipedia project for such a language would be asking for trouble.

Cheers,
Jan





2017-12-09 21:17 GMT+01:00 Milos Rancic <millosh@gmail.com>:
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 8:23 PM, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com> wrote:
> It seems important to me to have some sort of rule which ensures consistency
> wrt artificial languages. Otherwise it will give reason to all sorts of
> unnecessary complaints.

I suppose that we will have in the near future a number of well
elaborated constructed languages, no matter if their intention would
be fun or taking role as a language for more useful, more likely
particular than general purpose. (For example, Slovio is interesting,
as it requires writers educated in Slovio, but non-educated native
Slavic speakers to read it; but it has copyright issues.)

Counting that there are no copyright and similar issues, I would
define it approximately in the following way: To be considered as
eligible, a constructed language has to have:

1) a clear communication purpose (i.e. the intention of creation the
language is not to make an art piece more elaborated, but to be used
as a mean for communication; Klingon, Quenya and Dothraki would pass
just with the native speakers OR with the post factum change of the
intention and creation of relevant support for that language, which
makes them a "regular" constructed language; I could imagine Klingon
could pass based on the last rule);

2) full basic dictionary;

3) a method for creative usage (i.e. creating the new words; somebody
has to be able to create an article about quantum mechanics in that
language, no matter if that language doesn't have those words
initially); if it doesn't allow users to create the new words, it has
to have a body which would promptly deal with the needs to write an
encyclopedia;

4) (add your requirement here; I suppose Michael, Jan and Andre could help here)

5) Additionally, that should be verified by at least two linguists
chosen by LangCom (this is a general linguistic task; unlike in the
case of verifying the content, a linguist verifying the *language*
doesn't need to speak the language).

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