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

[Ziko van Dijk]

And the question is wether there is a linguistic community that can be
reported about. If it has no conventions, culture, literature, clubs etc...
it could have articles only about stuff that exists primarily due to other
linguistic communities. That' s the problem of the bot-generated Volapük
Wikipedia. A linguistic community (worth to mention it) existed only from
ca. 1880 to 1890, and even then many "speakers" were not capable really to
communicate in that language (according to the experiences in the 1884 and
1887 conventions in Friedrichshafen and Munich, with German as a lingua
franca).

Ziko van Dijk


2008/3/29, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:
>
> Allow--indeed, encourage--for every language in which there's enough
> of a community to support it. How large a community is needed is the
> only real question.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:04 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 29/03/2008, Ben McIlwain <cydeweys at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > Certainly not in every extinct language.  But whether the language is
> >  >  extinct or not is largely irrelevant; what really matters is whether
> >  >  there would be a large enough community to sustain a Wikipedia in
> that
> >  >  language.  If it's an extinct language that doesn't have a lot of
> >  >  support and the wiki would languish in obscurity, don't create a new
> >  >  Wikipedia for it.  If it's an extinct language with widespread
> interest
> >  >  and the potential for a large community (such as Latin, which I see
> we
> >  >  already have), go for it.
> >
> >
> >  That would probably apply well to conlangs as well. Esperanto has a
> >  vast interest and support base, Volapuk ... doesn't really.
> >
> >
> >  - d.
> >
> >
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