On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 17:10, Erik Moeller wrote:
If you want to know if the majority of Wikipedia users
supports
Klingon or not, you will have to hold a well-publicized vote about
it. This, or a compromise, is the only acceptable way out of the
current impasse.
It looks like this is an impasse only for you Erik. From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_coordination#Starting_a…
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A certain amount of "critical mass" is necessary in order for a wiki to
"take off". Without 5-10 people eagerly writing and arguing and playing
with each other, it wouldn't be as much fun. So we encourage anyone who
wants to build a wiki in their own language to also go out and
announce/recruit for it. :-)
>
So to me the documented procedure says that you only have to find
half a dozen people willing to populate the language wikipedia, and not
to get "the majority of Wikipedia users" support.
Or may be you want to create a "wikipedia language censorship
committee"? I don't believe it fits with:
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We are aware that many of the world's 6,500 languages are not
well-represented on computers or the web, and we are committed to
working with language speakers and computing organizations to support as
many languages as possible
>
The language link cites artificial languages which lists and discuss
Klingon.
Please do not stop other people willingness to contribute to wikipedia.
Sincerely,
Laurent
PS: I'm by no mean an active contributor, and do not speak or know
Klingon (I discovered the Knligon community on wikipedia :).