Timwi wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
(1) the language is a joke or vanity project [...]
For example, it would be bad to have a Klingon Wikipedia, I think.
I totally don't get this. You call Klingon a "joke project" when it has a strong following, widespread enthusiasm, a complete grammar and vocabulary, etc., but then you allow something like Toki Pona, which is hardly even a language and arouses interest solely by being very much indistinguishable from a joke.
I don't understand this.
I'm not sure what you think Jimmy had to do with that. I added Toki Pona since it was asked for several times without objections that I noticed, then afterwards several people objected strenuously on the mailing lists. So, we've put off any further 'young conlang' additions to the main Wikipedia project pending more conclusive resolution. (As a partial measure, the Toki Pona wiki was moved from a faux language code subdomain to a full name.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)