Pablo Saratxaga (pablo@mandrakesoft.com) [050211 00:20]:
That is the problem; what the proposers of those languages want is not a Wikipedia! They want a playgroung, feature the wonderfull mediawiki software (which has evolved to be the best wiki software out there). Imho such demands should be redirected to wikibooks or a similar thing (maybe not hosted by wikipedia foundation); it will be even better for them, as there won't be the need to write NPOV encyclopedic articles. As for people doing research, I can perfectly imagine people doing research in Klingon about Klingon language topics (or about supposed Klingon fictional universe); but indeed I don't imagine them doing research in Klingon about chemistry, medieval European history or Russian litterature... So, a mediawiki site for those fictional language makes sense and is legitimate, but it should definitively not be a wikipedia; it doesn't has the same goels, and it should have the same constraints either.
I think you've got it precisely correct.
They would probably be good candidates for Wikicities or something if they don't have the technical abilities/resources to set up Mediawiki themselves.
(I feel the same about some dead non-fictional languages, like classical Latin or Anglo-saxon)
That's an interesting point, given the precedent of their existence ... though Latin still has life in it as an international auxiliary language. What do the Anglo-Saxon volunteers think of this argument?
- d.