I'm not referring to conlangs as they are more controversial and should be dealt with separately.
However I would ask you the following questions: 1. does anybody speak your conlang as their native language? 2. if not, does anybody use it in their daily life significantly more than any other language? 3. How many speakers does it have overall?
If your answer to 1 was "yes", I would definitely consider supporting it. If your answer to 2 was yes and your answer to 3 was over 1000 or so, I would consider supporting it. However, the majority of conlangs (especially newly-created ones) do not have very many speakers, and even those that do oftentimes have no native speakers or nobody who uses them more than any other language in their day-to-day life.
--node
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:21:50 +0200, Andre Engels andrewiki@freemail.nl wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:54:39 -0700 Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
I find that horribly discriminatory.
And where do we draw the line? 3 speakers? 300? 3000? 30000? 300000? 3 million? 30 million?
No hard line. The question is: Do we expect this to be a succesful project, and help Wikipedia's mission to spread information? There's no hard limit for that, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. If I make a language tomorrow, should it get a Wikipedia? If I work on it for a year? If I get 2 other people to speak it? 10 other people? 1000? A million? Half the world?
Andre Engels