On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 22:19:38 -0700 Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Similarly, Toki Pona which although at the time of its creation was not controversial many Wikipedians appear to resent today has only 190 articles and has not been growing really at all for quite some time.
I disagree with your statement that Toki Pona "at the time of its creation was not controversial". I have spoken out my doubts BEFORE it was created, and major objections came in within _days_ of it being created - see timeline below. If there was no major objections before its creation, that was only because those against it: 1. Did not know there were any plans to create Tokipona, or 2. Assumed that objecting was not necessary to stop those plans.
At the time several languages were proposed, and none had been created for quite a while. I was definitely with the second group.
Andre Engels
Timeline regarding Toki Pona: 31 March: Request by Sonia to start Toki Pona 1 April: Yours humbly says tokipona should get a 3- not a 2-letter code, and in this message writes: "[...] for me personally it's getting to the level where I doubt whether having it would be good at all." 4 April: Brion tells that Toki Pona, Ido and Tok Pisin have been created 4 April: Evan Podromou write: "On this subject: isn't the toki pona Wikipedia just going to have, like, 12 articles?" 5 April: Erik Moeller writes a rather long mail rejecting Toki Pona. Discussion starts between Erik attacking and Brion defending. 5 April: Erik proposes to remove Toki Pona and move it to the Unilang wiki 5 April: Erik adds another argument: Toki Pona is copyrighted