[Foundation-l] Ancient Greek Wikipedia

[Marcus Buck]

Christiano Moreschi hett schreven:
> Very true. 
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> As regards the necessity of using words from modern times that have no direct ancient Greek equivalents, it is always possible to use circumlocution. The Vatican, I believe, have invented a delightful Latin phrase for a computer. It's "instrumentum computatorium".
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> I love it.
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> CM
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Or perhaps bind the creation of the wiki to a policy disallowing the 
creation of neologism in-project, as long as they are not backed by 
original works from outside Wikimedia projects. That means only 
documenting neologism that are coined by third persons. If Jan Křesadlo 
created a word for "time travel" in his ΆΣΤΡΟΝΑΥΤΙΛÍΑ, why shouldn't the 
Ancient Greek Wikipedia be allowed to use that term for their 
encyclopedia article on time travel too. If there's nobody, who has 
written in Ancient Greek about some topics, disallow articles on it by 
policy. Will work too.
Actually that's very similar to the way we work on Low Saxon Wikipedia 
(and most likely other non-standard or lesser-used standard languages 
too). Low Saxon lacks some terms; we try to dig into the Low Saxon 
literature and unearth the existing terms coined by the writers.

Marcus Buck