On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:37:09 +1000, Tim Starling ts4294967296@hotmail.com wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
The difference here Tim is that while Klingon is 1. a conlang with a fairly small number of speakers intended as the language of an imaginary alien race from a scifiseries 2. afaik completely without native speakers altogether, save maybe a handful, while Gothic is a natural language with perhaps 4000~5000 speakers [...]
I'm aware of their differences, but neither can be justified in terms of the reasons I work on this project. I'm just not interested in supporting linguistic research. I'm happy to leave it to other people as long as they don't waste my time.
The reasons you work on the project can't justify helping to build an encyclopedic resource for a fledgling community of native speakers who will start growing into such a resource in the next couple of years? Just curious, but what exactly are the reasons you work on this project, and what requirements must a language meet to be justifiable in terms of them?
Oh also I would like to add that I'd be very happy to help anybody wanting help setting up a new Wikipedia, beyond the most technical aspect I can handle it very well, and I think I have a fair grasp of that too. Of course dev tasks I couldn't do, but beyond that...
We can talk about that offlist. Suffice to say that there are certain dev tasks you *would* have to do.
My point is that I do not have dev access, and I would be surprised if it was given to me at least before the end of next year. I'm sure I could do a lot of the dev tasks if I had the access, but I don't have the nessecary knowledge to be able to mess with code until it works the way I want, with only a few exceptions; thus for example the Finnish thing you referred to I could probably not've done.
--node