From: "Timwi" timwi@gmx.net
Andre Engels wrote:
I find this a rather disappointing compromise.
I sure hope that it is temporary. If after a year the Klingon Wikipedia does turn out to be a real success, I'm pretty sure nobody will mind if we add inter-wiki links then. If by then the Klingon Wikipedia is quite obviously dead, nobody will mind getting rid of it again.
But the fact that inter-wiki links are disallowed does hinder progress in some manner to this Wikipedia language project. Imagine if we did that to say French.
The premise is that Klingon isn't worthy of having inter-wiki links just because it is a constructed language.
I'm sure that there are by now more people in the world that have heard of Klingon as a language, than of many minor natural languages. And even some major constructed languages, also.
I'm not a user of Klingon but I do support the right of any community using a standardized form of communication to be recognized and considered worthy of inclusion as a wikipedia language project.
To place restrictions on a certain language do to the bias and prejudice of some is unjust, it hinders the progress of the wiki in question and it gives it a mark of doom from the start.
Let's face it whether we may want it or not there are actually some folks out there who are quite into this language. It is by no means an easy language to learn. It is used in other projects like Google without bringing reproach to that website. For Wikipedia to make exclusions and restrictions seems highly unfair and biased.
Sincerely, Jay B. [[User:ILVI]]