[Foundation-l] Allow new wikis in extinct languages?

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The argument against new wikipedias in extinct or ancient languages is that
as a consequence of their status new vocabulary prevents the writing of a
modern encyclopaedia. With the creation of neologisms you change the
language to the extend that it no longer IS that language.

This has nothing to do with the relevance of the language but everything
with the historic accuracy of that language. People that read all this
modern terminology will expect that as a consequence they are learning the
language while in fact they will not truly do this. Latin is in my opinion
different in that it has seen continued use and the Vatican does publish a
dictionary with neologisms (new in relation to the classical Latin).

When it can be proven that there has been a continued use, it would not
surprise me that this is true for Sanskrit, I would personally re-evaluate
my position and consider an exception to this rule.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Crazy Lover <always_yours.forever at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I noticed that the present discussion started  as an answer to the
> rejection of the ancient greek wikipedia. and i haven't seen a hard defence
> like this project.
>  i think is due to the ancient greek is always a special case. as the
> quote of Edward Sapir found   in the classical language article of
> wikipedia; the ancient greek is with latin, classical chinese, arabic and
> sanskrit is the foundation of all the culture of the whole world,
> and the modern world refers to them, all the time.
>
> I ask to the subcommitte:
>
>  if the discussion provide good reason to the project of ancient language.
> it's possible a reconsideration of the rejection of ancient greek Wikipedia,
> and others projects of ancient language like classical japanese or ottomanic
> turkish that were proposed, too?.
>
> J. case
>
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