Hello fellow Wikipedians,

This is my first posting to this mailing list; my name is André and in the Wikipedias you might either know me as „N-true“ or „André Müller“.

Okay, well... you created the Klingon Wikipedia yesterday. Today you suspended it again. I don’t quite understand why you did the latter. The Wikipedia project is to create an encyclopedia in many languages. Also artificial are included, such as Esperanto, Interlingua and Volapük. Even dead languages like Latin or Sanskrit (which remains unused though). There’s even a Wikipedia in Toki Pona, another artificial language even known to much fewer people than Klingon, for instance. I don’t see how Toki Pona stayed up and Klingon didn’t? If this is because you think there’d be too few contribuents, you’re wrong – there’ll be many enough. If it’s because the Wikipedia might lose credibility when it adds „silly“ languages – no. The Klingon language community is a growing one, just like the one of Toki Pona. I don’t think this would offend anyone out there. Wikipedia might just get some more famous. And speaking about credibility... I don’t know if some validated languages are more realistic than Klingon; there’s Plattdüütsch, which is indeed considered a language, but it doesn’t have a orthographic norm – it’s written as you speak it, and thus may differ from speaker to speaker.

As you have probably seen, I had already started to work on the Klingon Wikipedia. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not trying to make you suspend Plattdüütsch or Toki Pona. It’s just that I and many other Klingon speakers/learners and future contribuents would like to have our wIqIpe’DIya back.

- André