And the question is wether there is a linguistic community that can be reported about. If it has no conventions, culture, literature, clubs etc... it could have articles only about stuff that exists primarily due to other linguistic communities. That' s the problem of the bot-generated Volapük Wikipedia. A linguistic community (worth to mention it) existed only from ca. 1880 to 1890, and even then many "speakers" were not capable really to communicate in that language (according to the experiences in the 1884 and 1887 conventions in Friedrichshafen and Munich, with German as a lingua franca).
Ziko van Dijk
2008/3/29, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com:
Allow--indeed, encourage--for every language in which there's enough of a community to support it. How large a community is needed is the only real question.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:04 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 29/03/2008, Ben McIlwain cydeweys@gmail.com wrote:
Certainly not in every extinct language. But whether the language is extinct or not is largely irrelevant; what really matters is whether there would be a large enough community to sustain a Wikipedia in
that
language. If it's an extinct language that doesn't have a lot of support and the wiki would languish in obscurity, don't create a new Wikipedia for it. If it's an extinct language with widespread
interest
and the potential for a large community (such as Latin, which I see
we
already have), go for it.
That would probably apply well to conlangs as well. Esperanto has a vast interest and support base, Volapuk ... doesn't really.
- d.
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