On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 02:40:30AM +0100, Timwi wrote:
only arguments that actually oppose the introduction of a Klingon Wikipedia are (a) copyright problems (which we've established numerous times isn't an issue) and (b) reputation problems (which is a really dumb argument for keeping Toki Pona).
c) as far as I know Unicode (or at least that supported bottom 16 bit wide part of it) does not support klingon glyphs, therefore it is pretty impossible to actually display a klingon wikipedia for anyone not specifically had installed the required customised fonts. I do not believe in transliterated documents (do chinese want pinyin wikipedia? I doubt it).
Let there be a separate project for conlangs. Let there be a technically good way (this addresses brion :)) to be able to 'promote' a mere conlang to a wikipedia if it reaches some acceptable standard of quality and quantity of the articles. This way everyone's happy: you can start an encyclopedia in your favourite conlang, and if you don't gather followers, it'll just sit there silently and not disturbing wikipedia; if your language springs up in the air and moves half a continent of followers then great, let's convert it to a real, separate wikipedia.
my 0.02 euros.
grin