Lainaus Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
Ralesk Ne'vennoyx wrote:
Klingon does have quite a big amount of written stuff already.
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I don't see anything "embarassing" with klingon; but the fact is people that use klingon do it for fun, not to communicate knowledge, much less to build a repository of human knowledge like an encyclopedia.
But some of them want to, thats exactly why they are or have been asking for a wikispace here. (duh!)
My personal attitude to a Klingon language encyclopedia is a benign "Whatever..." I don't worry about it enough to care about how many articles they have. It does seem sometimes that those who object to that project best express the Klingon characteristics in their own personalities.
The argument is often expressed about this, and about a number of other issues, that dealing with these would bring embarassment on Wikipedia. Well they might inspire the occasional giggle, but that's still far removed from embarassment.
Innovators don't worry about embarassment. If they did nothing would ever move forward.
Ec
Very well put. I would add that as Wikipedia gains visibility, we should worry about our image less, and not more. We will *define* the correct way of dealing with these and other issues.
We _will_ become the 900 pound gorilla of the net. We can have a language project for a nascent or dying language! We decide what languages we have! Not any public expectation!
-- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen aka. Cimon Avaro