Brion-
Anti-Klingonists, which would you prefer, given these
two options: a
Klingon-language encyclopedia in a side project that you never have to
see or hear about, or neverending fighting *about* one from people who
just won't shut up about it?
A side project with its own domain name for conlangs and dead languages
seems like a good idea. It may be possible to work with the people from
the Unilang wiki on this:
http://www.unilang2.org/main/wiki/wiki.phtml
(Unilang also uses MediaWiki.)
I remain somewhat concerned about using foundation resources to promote a
few people's pet projects. This isn't even for Jimmy alone to decide as
much of Wikimedia's current resources come from outside donations. Perhaps
this question should be put to a Wikimedia-wide vote.
The argument can of course be made that since Klingon, Toki Pona, Modern
Egyptian et al. have practically no speakers, they aren't at risk of
consuming significant resources. However, I believe that every Wikimedia
or Wikipedia project should at least have the *potential* to become large
and useful to thousands of people. If that potential doesn't exist, then
the question may be raised why we should do it at all.
"EnlargeSpace"? People like "Prince of Egypt" strike me as not quite
dissimilar to the micronation crowd, and I'm not sure it's a good idea for
us to go to great lengths to attract more of them.
Regards,
Erik