[Wiktionary-l] Klingon Wiktionary closed

[Oldak Quill]

On 31/03/07, Elisabeth Anderl <n9502784 at students.meduniwien.ac.at> wrote:
> What legitimate purpose to Wikimedia's mission do serve then Esperanto,
> Ido, Interlingua, Interlingue, etc. Wiktionaries?
> You might want to lock all invented languages then.
> The message You got on tlh.wikt. is unaccaptable. But it should not be a
> reason for closing that wikt.
> Please have a look at the statements here
> http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9164
>
> The reason to reopen it is:
> It is a _dictionary_ of an invented language. We have other Wiktionaries
> of that kind.
> Also, as I could see, there are quite active contributors there, so this
> wikt. got even bigger than some of the other mentioned invented
> languages sites not closed.

One can't dismiss all constructed languages out of hand. Esperanto,
for one, has an ISO 639 code (1, 2, and 3) and has a signficant level
of usage. Several other constructed languages come close to this.

Despite Klingon not being the same in terms of real-world usage, I'm
not sure what harm such projects do. If they bring people to Wikimedia
who wouldn't otherwise be here, then they are good.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)