[Wikipedia-l] Re: Quenya language request, and Chinese Wikipedia again

Sat Feb 26 02:36:58 UTC 2005

I don't think there is much capacity for such a wiki.

A Wiki on languages in general might generate a lot of articles, but a
Wiki about Cantonese specifically would never have much capacity to
grow.

If you truly think it's a good idea, or that it will somehow benefit
Cantonese and Cantonese speakers, or whatever, then I won't oppose
you.

Mark

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:00:43 -0800 (PST), Felix Wan
<felixwiki at earthsphere.org> wrote:
> On Thu, February 24, 2005 4:50 pm, Angela said:
> > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:43:03 -0700, Mark Williamson
> > <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Unfortunately the conlang part does not apply to Cantonese,
> >> although the miniwiki "scratchpad" may, it's not much different
> >> from what we have already at Meta.
> >
> > I only meant this for Quenya. I don't think there would be any
> > advantage to starting a Cantonese encyclopedia at Wikicities.
> >
> After browsing the wonderful Wikicities for some time, I have a
> different idea.  We do not need to be bound by the format of an
> encyclopedia.  Why not start a wiki about Cantonese, written
> mainly in standard English and/or standard Chinese?  I believe
> that wiki will be very useful, will attract contributors and
> readers, and should not be opposed.
> 
> Since that will be a different project, I would like to do a
> quick popularity survey here.  Who will support that project?
> Who will contribute?
> 
> If the Quenya people are still on the list, let me tell you that
> I would like to see a wiki about Quenya written in English too.
> Of course, there is no restriction on writing example articles
> in Quenya.
> 
> Felix Wan
> 
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