[Wikipedia-l] Re: Quenya language request

Thu Feb 10 04:21:56 UTC 2005

Hey hey hey... hold it.

Quenya, not having an official supporting organisation like Klingon or
Lojban, deserves to at least be considered, although it should
probably be relegated to the same second-class status currently
afforded to the Klingon and sometimes Lojban Wikipedias.

However, the fact that the proposer speaks only passing Quenya and
does not refer to an individual or organisation on whose behalf he
presumes to request this language (as I have done, and as has done
Pektiong Tan), makes me wary. The Wikipedia should probably not be
created until somebody floats along who can claim real fluency in the
language, or the requester contacts an organisation to confirm
support.

Mark

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 04:02:50 +0000, Arwel Parry
<arwel at cartref.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <BAY103-F32839BCEC9810D39BDEA5DDB760 at phx.gbl>, Ron H
> <aceron99-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> writes
> >
> >I would like to request adding Quenya to the list of languages on
> >Wikimedia. Quenya is the language of the elves in the works of Tolkien.
> >Other fictional languages, such as Klingon, already exist on Wikipedia.
> >speak passing Quenya. I have already prepared several articles,
> >including one on constellations, and would like to add them to a
> >quenya-language wiki.
> >
> >
> >
> >Firsfron on Wikipedia.
> 
> Oh, please no. We had an enormous argument about Klingon and even now
> there's only 50 articles on tlh.
> 
> Is there really a user community large enough to sustain a Quenya
> wikipedia? What would the language code be? And can MediaWiki handle
> Tengwar fonts?
> 
> Genuine languages like Ossetian are finding it difficult enough to get
> the developer resources to set themselves up.  I don't think this is
> something that should be rushed into.
> 
> --
> Arwel Parry
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