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

Ralesk Ne'vennoyx ralesk at livejournal.com
Fri May 21 22:11:27 UTC 2004


>Klingon does have quite a big amount of written stuff already.
>
>However, wikipedia is an enciclopedia, so the question is not whether
>the language can be written, but whether people would actually write
>enough *encyclopedic content*.
>
>A possibility would be to require showing some real activity, eg
>requiring having some 200 or 400 articles before fully accepting a
>conlang.
>  
>
And where would they write all that?  And why don’t we pose such a 
criterium against all those tiny languages too (not being 
anti-languages, here, I hope you see my sarcasm)

>I don't see anything "embarassing" with klingon; but the fact is people
>that use klingon do it for fun, not to communicate knowledge, much less
>to build a repository of human knowledge like an encyclopedia.
>
>  
>
But some of them want to, that’s exactly why they are or have been 
asking for a wikispace here. (duh!)

PS: it seems the mail server is crapping itself yet again and is sending 
out months old stuff now.



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