Erik Moeller wrote:
Ivo-
choises: eighter the languge is not importand and has not much articles (in this case their can not be much interwiki-links to that language) or it is important and has much articles.
Having many articles does not make a language important. With some basic Klingon skills I could get the article count up to 30,000 by translating the US census data. Furthermore, most conlang Wikipedias will effectively be abused as dictionaries for their respective languages, and if a very dedicated conlang inventor like Sonja works on the wiki, they can easily get to a few thousand definition "articles" in little time. Hell, my own infoAnarchy wiki has 3100 pages created by a handful of volunteers. That does not mean it is an encyclopedia, nor does it mean it ever has the potential to become one.
I'll create a page on Meta for voting on new language Wikipedias (and I would like for a vote to be also applied to Toki Pona). That seems like the most reasonable solution to this problem.
Regards,
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I disagree - it is not up to current users to decide whether a language community wants its own wikipedia. This just gives the english wikipedia an effective veto.
I have no problem at all with _any_ natural language having a wikipedia if there is the desire for one. The complaints about costs must be negligible compared to the cost of en, for example. What is the actual costs for a small wikipedia - bandwidth and a tiny bit of disk space?
The issue that has been raised refers to conlangs - I think we need to separate out the two. I agree that we would look silly having Klingon, and that we will need to moderate conlangs - in the same way that some articles about conlangs have been deleted if they exist only in the mind of their creators.
Fundamentally I don't see this as a massive problem - if we get over-run by conlangs then we need to reconsider, but at the moment all natural languages that request a wikipedia should get one.
Caroline / Secretlondon