Hey Jimbo, Thanks for the kind words and support. I would enjoy working on it very much, as would the people on the Old English mailing lists ENGLISH-L, Old English Made Easy, and Forum for Composition in Old English. What was the deal with Klingon? How'd that get a Wiki? OE is still active as a language, with new works being written even now, and translation projects going for the Bible, Shakespeare, and other works of literature.
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 1:10 PM To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: FW: Wikipedia for Old English
James R. Johnson wrote:
May I ask why Klingon, and Esperanto have Wikis?
Esperanto is an active community. Don't even ask about Klingon, that's a long and sad story.
I fully support your request to have Old English, it has an ISO 639 3-letter code (ang), after all.
I don't think "Why do you think it would be a good idea?" is much of an objection to your plan. Unless there's some reason to think that it's a bad idea (Klingon, for example, was and is controversial), then if people want to do it, they should do it. "I would enjoy working on it" is a perfectly valid reason.
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