[Wikipedia-l] About creating a new language on Wikipedia

[GerardM]

Hoi,
In the language committee we are not really happy with artificial languages
or with languages long dead that are given a new lease of life because "we
can". In dead languages you have to do original research in order to be able
to name the concepts that are modern and foreign to that language as we know
it. Wikipedia is not about original research and you have to create new
words and in the process change the language in order to write an
encyclopaedia that is to be used in this day and age.
Thanks,
     Gerard

On 7/5/07, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Berto 'd Sera wrote:
> > Seriously, how would you manage? Do we call up the mobs to scream and
> swear
> > as we did before, or do we nominate 7 Valencian and 7 Catalan Knights
> and
> > make it a Royal Tournament? That's all the choice you're given, you
> know?
> >
> > You EITHER
> >    choose an external reference
> > OR
> >    choose yourself.
>
> If you're deferring to an external authority to avoid conflict, or to
> reduce workload, then that's fine. Just don't say you're doing it because
> you want to follow the "no original research" policy. Most Wikipedia
> policies are common sense. NOR is probably the only one which would be
> disasterous if it were generalised to life outside Wikipedia.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
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