Personally, I think this whole thing is silly. I don't think there should be a Wikipedia in Klingon, or Ferengi, or Pig-Latin, or any other pseudo-language. (In the immortal words of William Shatner, "Get a life!") If a few Trekkies want to start up a Klingon wiki, they can download the MediaWiki software themselves and install it on their own server. That's how I started the Disinfopedia. I didn't need to ask anyone else for permission, because I didn't use anyone else's resources (other than the software, which I thank the Wikipedia community for giving away free).
Having said this, though, perhaps a few folks here will enjoy taking a look at Google's language tools, which enable users to "Use the Google Interface in Your Language," with choices including "Elmer Fudd," "Pig Latin," "Esperanto," "Hacker," "Klingon" (of course), and something called "Bork, bork, bork!" The URL is:
http://www.google.com/language_tools
Can we have a Wikipedia in Bork, bork, bork!, please? :-)
--Sheldon Rampton
Sheldon Rampton wrote:
Personally, I think this whole thing is silly. I don't think there should be a Wikipedia in Klingon, or Ferengi, or Pig-Latin, or any other pseudo-language.
You are about the fortyseventhousandtwohundredandninetythird person to call it a "pseudo-language" (or "nonsense language" or any other variant). That doesn't make it any more true, nor does it put Klingon anywhere near the same level as "Pig Latin" or "Bork Bork Bork". Inform yourself before passing such derogatory and unjustified judgements.
Timwi
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On Tuesday 01 June 2004 00:20, Timwi wrote:
Hi Timwi, I'm not a Klingon-fan altough I don't have anything against a Klingon-Wikipedia. But please don't spam the list because some people here don't share your opinion. I've read ~70 or more emails related to "Klingon" and that's about ~3-6 times more than it's usual on this list. So please if you need some technical information about how to get the mediawiki installed ask it and I think there will be some friendly helpers here.
But if it's just a flaming war related to the Klingons or their language, post somewhere else. Go and create your own wiki-server. It's easy to setup and maintain a wiki which is _as_ good as the mediawiki is.
Thank you, Joachim
Sheldon Rampton wrote:
Personally, I think this whole thing is silly. I don't think there should be a Wikipedia in Klingon, or Ferengi, or Pig-Latin, or any other pseudo-language.
You are about the fortyseventhousandtwohundredandninetythird person to call it a "pseudo-language" (or "nonsense language" or any other variant). That doesn't make it any more true, nor does it put Klingon anywhere near the same level as "Pig Latin" or "Bork Bork Bork". Inform yourself before passing such derogatory and unjustified judgements.
Timwi
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