[Foundation-l] Fwd: Tokipona-Wikipedia

[Ian A Holton]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:27 +0100, Michael Bimmler wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Kurt Leesmeister <danrike at gmail.com>
> Date: Jan 18, 2008 5:12 PM
> Subject: Tokipona-Wikipedia
> To: foundation-l-owner at lists.wikimedia.org
> 
> 
> Dear Wikipedia,
> 
> I would like to ask you whether it will be possible to reopen the
> tokipona-Wikipedia. It had been closed for some time and obviously it
> was founded by fare to early as he tokipona-language is a new one and
> the number of tokipona-speakers had been much to low at that time. In
> the meantime the number of tokipona-speaking people increased and the
> limited response shouldn't be a problem anymore. As the
> tokipona-wikipedia exists already it should only be a restart of an
> existing program. This will tokipona give a chance to be used in a
> well known forum once again. If the response will not be as expected
> the current status can be reached and will be final.
> 
> I will be plesed hearing from you.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Kurt Leesmeister (registred as BBKurt in the German or English Wikipedia)

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.

Ian [[User:Poeloq]]
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