I totally agree with you, Jimbo. Every language has qual right to be
considered one, especially on a multi-lingual, multi-racial community site
such as Wikipedia.
- Mamduh
From: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: I want to start a new language... with
thecode"eg" please.
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 08:32:45 -0700
Peter Gervai wrote:
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 11:14:58AM +0300, Prince
of Egypt wrote:
> No, it's a new conlang (well not really a conlang) called the Modern
> Egyptian Language. Is there any other language that has the
abbreviation of
"EG"?
Which wikipedia article describes the language you would like to have?
If
there isn't any maybe there isn't much
people interested in?
What is our policy on constructed languages? I ask because I'm really not
sure.
My general feeling is that unless there's some very good reason not to
have a particular language, we should have it. Some good reasons that
I can think of: (1) the language is a joke or vanity project (2) the
language is just a slight change of dialect from some other language.
For example, it would be bad to have a Klingon Wikipedia, I think. It
would be bad to have separate sites for British and American English.
And finally, I think that it's very very convenient for us to avoid
arguments about this by reference to ISO standards. We could, in some
cases, make exceptions, but we should be cautious about doing so.
--Jimbo
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