One more - I really don't know why I'm finding my own opinion so interesting today ;-)

Ronline wrote:

In fact, I think the isolation of Toki Pona and Klingon from the Wikipedia community are both

negative

precedents that shouldn't be repeated again. It is exactly this attitude that I am worried about, which consists of two points:

1. That languages which aren't used predominantly be

a

certain population aren't important and can be

treated

as "second-class", just because they don't help in

the

narrow goal of making an encyclopedia accessible to all. [...]

I can't really agree with you this time. Toki Pona and Klingon simply _are_ part of a very different class of languages than English or Romany. Thus, treating them equally would be the same as if you treated a cat like a dog or vice versa.

In my opinion, every natural language is at least worth being considered for the purposes of transferring knowledge here. But why should one want to use a fictional language like Klingon for the purpose of writing a non-fictional (online) book? Most probably for entertainment reason only. A nice pastime for those who like it, sure. But is a project dedicated to information/knowledge really the right place for that?

Arbeo

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