On 1/16/06, Mike Kuklinski <admin(a)kuattech.com> wrote:
I know that this would never go on
'officially' for Wikipedia, but
if I assembled a Wikipedia on one of my servers for my conlang,
Dasprach, and it had substantial amounts of information (better than
most of the 'real' Wikipedias), do you think it would be allowed for me
to move my user-page for Dasprach
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Antman/Dasprach) (an improved
version) to the main namespace?
Whether you write or lot or not about it doesn't matter: the chief
issue here is notability. Many people run Wikis on personal servers,
and many people have invented conlangs.
To write about your conlang on Wikipedia, this conlang wiki would
first have to be notable. A minimal requirement for this, IMO, would
be a significant number of users, articles, and links to the site from
the Internet at large.
In general, it's probably not a good idea to start a project with the
goal of meeting Wikipedia's notability requirements so you can write
about it on Wikipedia. It's hard to decide objectively when exactly
it's notable enough when you're the one doing the work. I'd say do
the project for its own sake, and if it takes off, it'll get written
about eventually.
regards,
Steve