[Foundation-l] Fwd: Tokipona-Wikipedia

[Casey Brown]

Although (like the others below suggest), the Tokipona wikis probably
aren't going to be re-opened, you can still contribute to the Tokipona
Wikia: <http://tokipona.wikia.com/wiki/lipu_lawa>.

On Jan 18, 2008 12:04 PM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2008 11:40 AM, Ian A Holton <poeloq at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As I wrote about yesterday on the WikiEN-l, is it really necessary to
> > have languages that are not primary languages of at least a decent sized
> > group of people. Toki Pona is a contructed language that isn't going to
> > enable more to people to edit or read Wikipedia.
>
> I agree with this. New language projects should be created as a way to
> faciliate the sharing of information. Small constructed languages
> represent little more then code or encryption, and those by definition
> are barriers to communications. It would be different if, for some
> people, Toki Pona was their natural, primary, or only spoken language.
> In that case, toki pona would be the only method of communication for
> this hypothetical group of people, and creating a project for them
> would help to facilitate the sharing of information.
>
> I see no benefit in creating a project which only a small group of
> people edit and nobody outside that group can read.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
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