Apparently you do not realise that Yann has indeed slandered against me. He attacked me verbally with no provocation.
Mark
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:31:58 +0100, Gerard Meijssen gerardm@myrealbox.com wrote:
Olve Utne wrote:
Hello Vegard, Mark, etc.,
An Old Norse project sounds fine with me -- either as a Wikipedia or as a Wiktionary. I am reasonably competent in Old Norse and can provide a bit of help along the way -- although I cannot promise to spend a lot of time on it, since there are so many other things I need to tend to also (including, first and foremost, the Nynorsk Wikipedia and the English one).
If you are interested in setting up content in Wiktionary, I am happy to help you set this up. There are several strategies, you can be part of a wiktionary in another language like any of the other Scandinavian languages or you can set up as an independent wiktionary. When you set up like part of another language, the Italian wiktionary is a model to follow, it is really great to see the large body of words in Napolitan (moving towards a 1000 words).
When you start to add words consider that in a wiktionary you would like to have both writing systems; we have these for several languages already. Chinese and Japanese are best developped on the cooperating wiktionaries. This would make the content much more usefull. Regarding different spellings you could either only select the preferred spelling (and perhaps note the alternate spellings as well) or you could have seperate entries with these spellings.
The wikimedia projects being ISO-639 oriented, a wikipedia project would indeed be with an existing code for old Norse. However, in the 639-3.4 version there are two codes for old Norse, non and onz are the TWO codes that are mentioned. It would be best to find out what the difference is between "Norse, old" and "old Norse". It may just be an inconsistency in this document that is in a "review and comment" phase.
As to Mark, I leave him alone as long as he keeps a civil tongue. I do not appreciate it when he attacks people like Yann. Mark can and does make good observations and, as I mentioned before discussions about languages are best kept on this list as it is important for how the wikipedia projects develop. So, as far as I am concerned, I will not attack Mark as long as he keeps a civil tongue, his accusing people of slander is not civil nor helpfull to his cause.
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