Hoi, It is and has always been accepted practice that a constructed language can apply for a Wikimedia Foundation project. In order to be given a conditional approval the language requires an ISO-639-3 code. With this approval it may demonstrate the linguistic validity by writing in the Incubator. With the localisation done and with a sufficient corpus final approval will be given by the Language committee. This corpus needs to be sufficient for us to ask someone to analyse the text and identify it for the language it is.
At the moment people supporting the Kotava language are working on the localisation for their language. They are awaiting the moment when they receive their ISO-639-3 code. This is likely to happen end of January 2008. The localisation will help them in any MediaWiki installation inside or outside the WMF.
The point of this all; it does not take a native speaker to start a project for a constructed language. What I have pointed out in the Language Committee for a long time now, is that it will take *more *effort to convince us that a constructed language deserves a WMF project. In this I often find that Incubator articles often do not provide the linguistic information that allows us to assess it properly (this is just to indicate that we do need convincing before we approve new languages).
Thanks. GerardM
On Dec 29, 2007 7:56 PM, Matthew Britton matthew.britton@btinternet.com wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
- "if not millions" is also a poetic nonsense. Please, read some
statistics [2] before expressing such bold "facts".
The English Wikipedia has more than six million registered user accounts. About 50 editions of Wikipedia have more than 1000 registered user accounts. Content has thus been added by thousands of users in about 50 cases, and millions in at least one case. In what way does this constitute "poetic nonsense"?
Also, you are telling me that only cultures with "millions of speakers" deserves to have good source of informations?
Not at all. One native speaker who has no knowledge of any other language would be enough reason to start a project in that language.
-Gurch
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