I'm not looking to launch a Toki Pona Wikipedia (yet), but all this discussion of various languages, their (non)widespread use, and so on has raised in my mind some questions. First off, I was wondering if anyone has any experience or data that gives an idea of how widespread Toki Pona use is, and secondly, I was wondering if there would be any particular opposition to a Toki Pona Wikipedia if (as a purely hypothetical example) five or six fluent speakers raised the issue here.
Again, I stress that I do not intend to pursue the notion of setting up a Toki Pona Wikipedia in the forseeable future. I'm interested in the language, though, and have recently begun the very odd task of learning it. Idle curiosity about how it fits into the Wikipedia realm is the natural (for me) consequence of these circumstances.
-- Chad
Chad Perrin wrote:
I'm not looking to launch a Toki Pona Wikipedia (yet), but all this discussion of various languages, their (non)widespread use, and so on has raised in my mind some questions. First off, I was wondering if anyone has any experience or data that gives an idea of how widespread Toki Pona use is, and secondly, I was wondering if there would be any particular opposition to a Toki Pona Wikipedia if (as a purely hypothetical example) five or six fluent speakers raised the issue here.
I assume you're new here; a Toki Pona Wikipedia was established last year, and after some months and much discussion was moved to Wikicities: http://tokipona.wikicities.com/
You can pull up prior mailing list discussion on the subject via a google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:mail.wikipedia.org+%22toki+pona%22
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
I'm not looking to launch a Toki Pona Wikipedia (yet), but all this discussion of various languages, their (non)widespread use, and so on has raised in my mind some questions. First off, I was wondering if anyone has any experience or data that gives an idea of how widespread Toki Pona use is, and secondly, I was wondering if there would be any particular opposition to a Toki Pona Wikipedia if (as a purely hypothetical example) five or six fluent speakers raised the issue here.
I assume you're new here; a Toki Pona Wikipedia was established last year, and after some months and much discussion was moved to Wikicities: http://tokipona.wikicities.com/
Holy cow. Amazing.
Err, yes. I'm new here. Mea culpa, and thanks for the info.
-- Chad
*cough*
heh. Yes, there is a Toki Pona Wikipedia. But it's not at Wikipedia. It's at wikicities.
This is the first time somebody asked about a conlang Wikipedia where we could say "already got it".
Mark
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:44:53 -0500, Chad Perrin perrin@apotheon.com wrote:
I'm not looking to launch a Toki Pona Wikipedia (yet), but all this discussion of various languages, their (non)widespread use, and so on has raised in my mind some questions. First off, I was wondering if anyone has any experience or data that gives an idea of how widespread Toki Pona use is, and secondly, I was wondering if there would be any particular opposition to a Toki Pona Wikipedia if (as a purely hypothetical example) five or six fluent speakers raised the issue here.
Again, I stress that I do not intend to pursue the notion of setting up a Toki Pona Wikipedia in the forseeable future. I'm interested in the language, though, and have recently begun the very odd task of learning it. Idle curiosity about how it fits into the Wikipedia realm is the natural (for me) consequence of these circumstances.
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