On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:44:39 +1000, Tim Starling ts4294967296@hotmail.com wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Oh, also there is the additional option of setting up shop at a Wikipedia that has had little or no action. This is *not* something I would encourage! Please exhaust all other options first. Depending on which language you choose though, it could take a very short time or a very long time for anybody to realise what you're doing. And if you can round up a good sized group of contributors, and you get up a sizable number of articles, when you *are* eventually found out there is a good chance the content will be kept, but moved to a different subdomain (most likely ang:).
I don't mind if people squat on empty wikis, since their secrecy means that they won't be able to request help writing language files, or to ask for help in making interlanguage links. In fact, I'll happily create any wiki if the potential contributors agree in advance to use a language file which is already mature, and that you refrain from requesting interface customisations which require developer attention.
Not nessecarily. I think it's quite possible somebody could take advantage of the system and request help writing language files; do they have to actually tell the developer that it's not for the right language? For some languages ie bo:, I can see that the fact it wasn't written in the right script would be a dead giveaway, but if somebody used some sort of conlang phonotactically similar to Tahitian on ty:, I can't imagine anybody could easily pick up on it.
Anyhow I would be quite happy to help people with language files. Interface customisations I'm afraid I can't help with, but I can help people with language files if they/you want.
Also, what you said about creating any wiki where the contributors agree to (your terms)... does that extend to *all* languages, or only languages that have already been discussed on the ML? While I personally do not see the existance of say got: doing much harm to anybody, others obviously have objections to its creation. Would you "happily create" a wikipedia for a language in this situation? What if the original requester had asked you before the ML?
Also, I'm curious as to why there was only one serious objector to ang:, but got: seems to have turned into a hot topic...
--node