I propose it be
entirely in Klingon so that there are approximately
equal numbers of people from each Wikipedia who can understand it.
Rather than what you propose, why not a full-time internet radio? We
can have programs such as "Let's trim our hair in the Wikipedian
fashion", "Jimbo Wales' Birthday Celebration", "Biography of
Jimbo
Wales" (who was born atop Encyclopedia Mountain, and who has never
lied and always lived in accordance with the Wikipedian ideal),
newsfeeds (with such news as "Imperialist Britannicans planning
nuclear attack on Wikipedia, Jimbo Wales counters with declaration of
the Wikimedia Foundation's nuclear capabilities"), and slogan hour
(where prominent Wikipedians shout out Klingon-language slogans about
Wikipedia, Jimbo, and related topics)
Mark
Funny Mark, but you're going too far. You are comparing Jimbo with Kim Yong
Il or some other absurdly glorified dictator. Moreover, I think this attemp
is not as moribund as you suggest.
First of all, it's "Kim Jong Il".
I appreciate most of your contributions and I share
your sympathy for
demographic minorities, but I can't really get your point in this. It
reminds me very much of your earlier e-mail in which you requested two kinds
of American English, Jimbonian and Nodelian. What's your point with jokes
like these?
Since you may be excluded from the tradition practiced in some
countries on April 1 (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools_Day
), I shall bring to your attention that not only does this tradition
exist, but the message in question was sent on April 1 (or at least
timestamped as such - it certainly wasn't April 1 in all timezones),
and it was all in good fun (and it did appear to provide a bit of
amusement for some other listmembers).
These jokes don't have a "point". If you scour the list for all
messages, you will find that I am not the only one who has a sense of
humour and knows how to make jokes. In fact, this extends to Ant, Mav,
Jimbo, etc. who can occasionally be found to be making a joke on this
list.
I don't know how it is with you, but as far as I know the point of
humour is to lighten up a situation, and only occasionally to make a
point.
Mark