What about languages with 3-letter ISO codes? I would think that would
be significant. We don't have a whole lot of those lying around.
Speculation and linguistic trivia? What the hell are you talking
about? Speculation? Hmm. Yes. I think it would probably be a good
thing for Syriac speakers to have an open-content encyclopedia.
That's generally true for most languages though, I think.
"If you want a Syriac wiki" - this isn't about me wanting a Syriac
wiki, it's about having an inactive wiki for a dead language whose
addition would have been controversial had it been discussed on this
list (at least recently), while lacking one for its modern descendent
spoken by millions.
--node
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 07:38:58 +1000, Tim Starling
<ts4294967296(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Hi all.
Just a short question:
Why is it that we have a Wikipedia for the ancient, dead language
Aramaic
http://arc.wikipedia.org/ - no content currently, but none for
its modern descendent Syriac (or "Neo-Aramaic"), spoken by millions,
which according to the ISO code would be at
http://syr.wikipedia.org/
?
There's no particular pattern to the creation of inactive wikis. To save
server resources, inactive wikis, with no edits, should be deleted. It
was my intention to delete inactive wikis when I wrote the automatic
wiki creation script, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
If you want a Syriac wiki, I suggest you find some Syriac speakers to
write it, instead of troubling this list with speculation and linguistic
trivia.
-- Tim Starling
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