On 25/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
For a constructed language writing an encyclopaedia is in many ways the holy grail. Being able to do so succesfully proves that the constructed language can be used to express about any subject. Both a Wikisource and a Wiktionary are static resources while the value of constructed languages is in active resources. As you indicate that there are arguments why you come to exactly the opposite viewpoint, I am interested in learning them.
I'm speaking in terms of reader usefulness. It's not a question of the writing so much as the reading. I do agree it's an important milestone for a conlang to be useful enough to write an encyclopedia, particulary a living wiki-based one.
(Getting back to the question of machine-generated articles, these seem to me to be more like building infrastructure for further development rather than creating useful work - I didn't think the Rambot US placename articles on en:wp were very useful when created, but lots have had good stuff added to them by humans since then.)
- d.