Erik Moeller wrote:
Er, excuse me? Who did this and why? I thought we had agreed to put these borderline languages on hold until there's a consensus on how to deal with them. I'm not very happy about facts being made through administrative action. As far as I can tell, there was no vote and no discussion on this.
Erik beat me to the punch. I'm not sure this discussion belongs on tech-l, but as this is the only Wikipedia list I subscribe to and I think the topic is serious enough, I'll voice my thoughts: get Klingon wikipedia away from wikipedia.org, and do it fast.
After people are told how wikipedia works ("you mean EVERYONE can edit ANYTHING?" "yes" "clearly then it's completely useless"), convincing them of its value as a useful and convenient source of information is difficult enough as is. Adding an inexistent, overtly nerdy language to the list of translations is putting words in the mouth of the incredulous who will be ever so delighted to ask "Wikipedia? You mean the pretend-encyclopedia that is available in Klingon?"
Don't give them the luxury. Jimbo - Wikipedia is a serious project and one that, I think, has a very bright future - don't taint it with this type of exercise in pointlessness (how many users do you think will use this?). I'd suggest this language is shut down immediately and relocated offsite (possibly to http://www.memory-alpha.org/ in this case, which also runs MediaWiki and is topically correct). A list of 'Non-endorsed, unofficial Wikipedia translations' may perhaps be kept at Wikipedia, but these borderline languages should in no way be mistakable for "official" Wikipedias.
Cheers, Ivan. P.S. Before someone points out 'Google does it!' as an admissible argument, let me remind them that Google does *not* provide content. We, on the other hand, do.