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(a)gmail.com>
Sent: July 15, 2021 4:07 AM
To: Ben Salvidrim <salvidrim(a)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<mailto: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
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From: Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen@gmail.com<mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>>
Sent: July 14, 2021 10:41 AM
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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<mailto:drakegemini664@gmail.com>> wrote:
I am wondering about the creation of an Old Norse
wikipedia page?
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