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@bomis.com Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org To: wikipedia-l@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:

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On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 11:14:58AM +0300, Prince of Egypt wrote:

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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

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"EG"?

Which wikipedia article describes the language you would like to have?

If

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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.

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