Whooaa! There!

But I'd support your request to have Klingon Wiki back up and running and I'm somewhat taken aback that it's been brought down too. I would urge its reactivation, let's talk it out and not turn away folks who would be dedicated to maintaining another language on the basis of someone else's evaluation of whether it is an honorable or not language. If the ISO folks gave it a code and the Google people are willing to host versions of silly languages like "hacker" and "elmer fudd", and yes even "Klingon" then what harm could it do Wikipedia to include Klingon in its available list of languages for wikipedia? Of course, the "Bork bork bork" is pretty useless, but there's a goodly number of auxiliary langs. included in the Google lang. choices.

Here's a list of Google's language options... I know it isn't the same as hosting an encyclopedia in that language but some of the choices are surprising, and do these harm Google in any way? No.

Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bihari Bork, bork, bork! Bosnian Breton Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Elmer Fudd English Esperanto Estonian Faroese Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Guarani Gujarati Hacker Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Interlingua Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Klingon Korean Kyrgyz Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian Norwegian (Nynorsk) Occitan Oriya Persian Pig Latin Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Punjabi Romanian Russian Scots Gaelic Serbian Serbo-Croatian Sesotho Sinhalese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Sundanese Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Tigrinya Turkish Turkmen Twi Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Xhosa Yiddish Zulu

----- Original Message ----- From: "Timwi" timwi@gmx.net To: wikitech-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 8:19 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] I'm infuriated.

Hello,

I'm pretty damn angry now. I can't believe you suspended the entire Klingon wiki. I can understand if you don't want inter-wiki links to it. I can understand if you don't want any links to the site. But can't you just let those that WANT TO WORK ON IT, work on it?! Seriously, guys, I'm indescribably disappointed. Put Klingon back up, or trash Toki Pona. Pretty damn annoyed, Timwi