[Wikipedia-l] Re: I want to start a new language... with the code"eg" please.

[Brion Vibber]

Timwi wrote:
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
> >> (1) the language is a joke or vanity project  [...]
>> For example, it would be bad to have a Klingon Wikipedia, I think.
> 
> I totally don't get this. You call Klingon a "joke project" when it has 
> a strong following, widespread enthusiasm, a complete grammar and 
> vocabulary, etc., but then you allow something like Toki Pona, which is 
> hardly even a language and arouses interest solely by being very much 
> indistinguishable from a joke.
> 
> I don't understand this.

I'm not sure what you think Jimmy had to do with that. I added Toki Pona 
since it was asked for several times without objections that I noticed, 
then afterwards several people objected strenuously on the mailing 
lists. So, we've put off any further 'young conlang' additions to the 
main Wikipedia project pending more conclusive resolution. (As a partial 
measure, the Toki Pona wiki was moved from a faux language code 
subdomain to a full name.)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)