[Wikipedia-l] Languages: crossing a border?
Ivo Köthnig
koethnig at web.de
Mon Apr 5 20:16:39 UTC 2004
> To me, it matters not whether a language is artificial or whether it has
> naturally developed over hundreds of years. It does matter, however, how
> many speakers there are, and if we can realistically create a complete and
> accurate encyclopedia with that number of speakers. I'd say a minimum of
> 10,000 active speakers is a requirement for creating an encyclopedia.
> Neither Klingon nor Toki Pona meet that requirement.
Although I share the POV of Erik that we do not really need Toki Pona, I must
say, that this argument can't be true, sine there are just 2 fuzzy choises:
eighter the languge is not importand and has not much articles (in this case
their can not be much interwiki-links to that language) or it is important
and has much articles.
--Ivo Köthnig
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