[Foundation-l] "Historical" languages and constructed languages

[Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)]

Hello,

There have been a few mistaken assumptions, so here is a very brief summary.

The language subdomain policy is at <
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy >. It
requires that the language have "a sufficient number of living native
speakers to form a viable community and audience" (this is interpreted
very inclusively). This blocks wikis in ancient, extinct, historical,
and constructed languages. Constructed languages are being discussed
by the language subcommittee, so comment is welcome.

There is already an exception to this rule for Wikisource, which is
allowed in such languages (although texts in such languages should
preferably be on a modern wiki if possible, like Old English on the
English Wikisource). There is a good argument to exempt Wiktionary
too, which is something we can look at in the near future.

-- 
Yours cordially,
Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
(All messages by members of the subcommittee are unofficial.)