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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Pathoschild is mistaken. The policy reads
"The proposal has a sufficient number of living native speakers to form a
viable community and audience. If the proposal is for an artificial language
such as Esperanto <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto>, it must have a
reasonable degree of recognition as determined by discussion."
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Jan 25, 2008 3:57 PM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.)
>
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