[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Klingon resurrected

Fri Jun 4 03:49:10 UTC 2004

From: "Timwi" <timwi at gmx.net>
> Andre Engels wrote:
> > I find this a rather disappointing compromise.
> I sure hope that it is temporary. If after a year the Klingon Wikipedia 
> does turn out to be a real success, I'm pretty sure nobody will mind if 
> we add inter-wiki links then. If by then the Klingon Wikipedia is quite 
> obviously dead, nobody will mind getting rid of it again.

But the fact that inter-wiki
links are disallowed does
hinder progress in some
manner to this Wikipedia
language project. Imagine
if we did that to say French.

The premise is that Klingon
isn't worthy of having inter-wiki
links just because it is a 
constructed language.

I'm sure that there are by now
more people in the world that
have heard of Klingon as a 
language, than of many minor
natural languages. And even
some major constructed 
languages, also.

I'm not a user of Klingon but
I do support the right of any
community using a standardized
form of communication to be
recognized and considered
worthy of inclusion as a
wikipedia language project.

To place restrictions on a
certain language do to the
bias and prejudice of some
is unjust, it hinders the progress
of the wiki in question and it
gives it a mark of doom from
the start.

Let's face it whether we may
want it or not there are actually 
some folks out there who are
quite into this language. It is
by no means an easy language
to learn. It is used in other projects
like Google without bringing
reproach to that website. For
Wikipedia to make exclusions
and restrictions seems highly
unfair and biased.

Sincerely,
Jay B.
[[User:ILVI]]