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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/04/2008, James Robert Johnson
<modean52(a)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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