I'd like to be responsible for the creation of a wikipediaversion in
gothic.
Full name: gothic
Language code: got
Number of speakers: 0
Number of people which has knowledge about gothic: at least 400, probably
much more.
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Scríobh Mark Williamson:
>Apparently you have not been reading a single word I have said,
>because I have said already that there are already kids being raised
>in Gothic, yet to the best of my knowledge one couple claimed to be
>raising their child(ren?) in Klingon but it turned out they weren't or
>something.
For the parents teaching their kids Klingon, the attempt failed, because
Klingon doesn't (or didn't, at that point) have enough words to describe
everyday objects like "table". The children didn't take to it, and the
experiment was abandoned. However, I do remember reading a news story
awhile ago about Child Protection officers raiding some caravan in the deep
South, where they found, in addition to a lot of squalor, that the father of
three children only addressed them in Klingon. So, I guess that they could
be termed first-language speakers of the language.
As for Latin, anyone who went to a Catholic school can probably recount
horrible experiences of learning that. There are lots of people with decent
Latin out there, even if nobody much speaks it as a first language. I think
there's a place for a Latin-language wiki though.
- Craig Franklin
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and Culture.
Tired as I am of receiving emails about Gothic (it seems to me that I have
more emails about the language than there are speakers), I want to suggest a
compromise.
Rather than create a Gothic Wikipedia, we start with a Gothic Wiktionary.
This has potential to be a valuable resource for researchers. It could be
multilingual, translating Gothic words into English, French, German, Spanish, and any
other languages. Then, if the Gothic Wiktionary takes off (say 10,000 words
and phrases), we can revisit the question of creating a Gothic Wikipedia.
Danny
I have a question - when my mouse hovers over the "log in, my watchlist, my
contributions" at the top right, it jumps to the left of the page, behind
the wikipedia logo. Anyone know why?
James
WikiSpecies in currently in the process of being launched as an official
wikimedia project with an initial interface and basic functions at
www.wikispecies.org/
A big thank you to everybody who contributed to the project so far, from the
constructive discussion to the technical support. I hope that the interest
in wikispecies will remain as high as it seems to be right now.
In order to allow an efficient communication between all those who are
interested in wikispecies, a mainling list was created. To register at this
mailing list, please go to:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikispecies-l
I hope many of you register and want to become part of an evolving
wikispecies! Best,
Benedikt
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I made on Meta page [[South Slavic NPOV page]] for (primary) NPOV
coordination for South Slavic Wikipedias (Bosnian, Bulgarian,
Croatian, Rusyn [they live in South Slavic region even it is East
Slavic language; also, they don't have Wikipedia, but they would
have], Serbian and Slovenian).
Official lanugages are South Slavic (+Rusyn), but if you don't know
any other, you can participate using English language.
I read this story on Newsforge, the imminence of this (expected THIS
fall) makes it really something. The material is of such a quality, the
breath of their data, the pictures alone, this is really big news ! As
the article says, openining up this content to the public, will make the
British culture much more important.
The license they will use will be the Creative Commons license.
http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/09/14/0715249.shtml
Thanks,
GerardM
On Monday I sent the Wash Post our response to their "Spreading
Knowledge, the Wiki Way" article, where they compare Brittanica Online
favorably to our disclaimered site. It is slated for publication in
their letters section tomorrow.
So take a look at a copy if you can!
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PR_department/WashPost-20040909#Response
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