[Foundation-l] Klassical Chinese

[Ting Chen]

I agree with you totally that the Classic Chinese has a tremendous 
cultural value. I myself had studied it from the fifth class until to 
the eleventh class. And among the few books I took from China to Germany 
and kept them through all my movings was Guwen Guanzhi 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guwen_Guanzhi). I am a big fan of some 
articles collected in that book. I can read texts from Zhou until the 
Qing-dynasty and had wrote classical poems at my youth myself. That's 
not the question.

I also totally agree with you and Tim and Aphaia that it is important to 
keep this cultural value and maybe find some place in our projects to 
keep it alive.

What I wonder is, is there a meaning to write an encyclopedia with this 
language. Who would look for Olympic Games in a classical chinese 
Wikipedia, except the people who write the article themselves?

Ting

Ted (Hsiang-Tai) Chien wrote:

> Personally I do not think Classical Chinese is a dead language. Here in
> Taiwan I studied Classical Chinese when I'm in school (junior / senior
> high). In our higher education, Classical Chinese is an optional subject as
> common sense course. And we still have lots of poem writers here using the
> language.
>
> As Aphaia previously stated, Japanese people are also using the Classical
> Chinese in their daily lives, maybe more than Chinese people.
>
> If you think the language is dead, it's your own opinion. It's still alive
> somewhere in the world. But, yap, it might be my own opinion, too. ;)
>
> Regards,
> Ted / H.T.
> User:Htchien
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
>> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ting Chen
>> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 2:12 PM
>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Klassical Chinese
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>> Jesse Plamondon-Willard wrote:
>>     
>>> Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> Because at the time it was created, we had not yet given [...]
>>>> team of rules lawyers the power to decide all wiki creation issues.
>>>>         
> There
>   
>>>> was a sentiment that we as a community should make our own decisions
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> Sounds like a reasonable compromise. Have the Board approve it and
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> No community decision? :)
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> That's the reason why I put the question here.
>>
>> Ting
>>
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