On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:37:09 +1000, Tim Starling
<ts4294967296(a)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