Shame on you. You should never tell people not to create content. If that's what he wants to do, let him do it in peace. Don't tell him he shouldn't.

2008/4/2, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>om>: The issue of extinct and constructed languages is one of the perennial arguments in the Wikipedian culture. You may find links to earlier discussions about it here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages -- Amir Elisha Aharoni English - http://aharoni.wordpress.com Hebrew - http://haharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

So much for creativity and innovation, Thomas :-(. A person is usually advised not to attempt something because of possible negative effects and/or outcome. Is that the case here? I think not. Sounds like a worthwhile project to me.

>> I wouldn't dedicated too much effort to the Old English Wikipedia if I >> were you. Who's going to read it? You're just producing learning aids >> for people learning the language, you're not really creating an >> encyclopaedia. >> > > So much for creativity and innovation, Thomas :-(. A person is usually > advised not to attempt something because of possible negative effects and/or > outcome. Is that the case here? I think not.

The negative effects are the loss of his time. That's only really a negative effect for him, <snip>

What will it achieve? In particular, how will it further out goal to provide the sum of human knowledge to people?

Marc, Exactly in a dead language you do NOT want innovation because as a consequence it is no longer that language. Thanks, GerardM On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Marc Riddell &lt;michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

Gerard, Your point is well taken. But I am not talking about "innovating" the language, but creating a project to discover more about it. Marc on 4/2/08 1:43 PM, Gerard Meijssen at gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com wrote: I aids usually discovery, _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

This is something you have been preaching and I have to say, it is absolutely untrue. There are ways to refer to new concepts without creating words that do not exist in the existing literature. For example, Navajo did not invent a new word to refer to a computer, instead it is called "metal that you write with with a mind of its own" (this is very long-winded, even in Navajo, so most people will just call it a "computer", however the terminology exists and it is not a made-up new word). For example, the Hebrew word for electricity comes from a Biblical word that means an aura. Languages are meant to adapt and be elastic. As long as we are not adding made-up words to a language (for example if I created a word "computerious" in Ancient Greek to mean "computer"), we can still write about modern concepts without extending vocabulary beyond its limits. This has been done before and it continues to be done. Mark On 02/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen &lt;gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net&gt; if I aids usually effects to discovery, _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

This is something you have been preaching and I have to say, it is absolutely untrue. There are ways to refer to new concepts without creating words that do not exist in the existing literature. For example, Navajo did not invent a new word to refer to a computer, instead it is called "metal that you write with with a mind of its own" (this is very long-winded, even in Navajo, so most people will just call it a "computer", however the terminology exists and it is not a made-up new word). For example, the Hebrew word for electricity comes from a Biblical word that means an aura. Languages are meant to adapt and be elastic. As long as we are not adding made-up words to a language (for example if I created a word "computerious" in Ancient Greek to mean "computer"), we can still write about modern concepts without extending vocabulary beyond its limits. This has been done before and it continues to be done. Mark On 02/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen &lt;gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l