Shame on you. You should never tell people not to create content. If that's what he wants to do, let him do it in peace. Don't tell him he shouldn't.
Mark
On 02/04/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/04/2008, James Robert Johnson modean52@comcast.net wrote:
Hey everyone,
I usually troll on here, reading, but not participating in
discussions, but I wanted to ask something. Old English is a dead language, yet has a living Wikipedia. For this wiki, we essentially use Early West Saxon, but the original language never had a single standard spelling. What does everyone think about using a standardized spelling for this language, as used in the Clark Hall dictionary of Anglo Saxon? I welcome any comments.
If we're going to have an Old English Wikipedia, some level of standardisation is probably required (although it's not essential to always spell words the same - see the modern English Wikipedia's policy on British English vs American English). However, such a standardisation is inherently very difficult to achieve, which is one of the reasons we don't create Wikipedia's for extinct languages any more.
I wouldn't dedicated too much effort to the Old English Wikipedia if I were you. Who's going to read it? You're just producing learning aids for people learning the language, you're not really creating an encyclopaedia.
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