Pablo Saratxaga (pablo(a)mandrakesoft.com) [050211 00:20]:
That is the problem; what the proposers of those
languages want is
not a Wikipedia!
They want a playgroung, feature the wonderfull mediawiki software
(which has evolved to be the best wiki software out there).
Imho such demands should be redirected to wikibooks or a similar thing
(maybe not hosted by wikipedia foundation); it will be even better for
them, as there won't be the need to write NPOV encyclopedic articles.
As for people doing research, I can perfectly imagine people doing
research in Klingon about Klingon language topics (or about supposed
Klingon fictional universe); but indeed I don't imagine them doing
research in Klingon about chemistry, medieval European history
or Russian litterature...
So, a mediawiki site for those fictional language makes sense and
is legitimate, but it should definitively not be a wikipedia; it doesn't
has the same goels, and it should have the same constraints either.
I think you've got it precisely correct.
They would probably be good candidates for Wikicities or something if they
don't have the technical abilities/resources to set up Mediawiki
themselves.
(I feel the same about some dead non-fictional
languages, like
classical Latin or Anglo-saxon)
That's an interesting point, given the precedent of their existence ...
though Latin still has life in it as an international auxiliary language.
What do the Anglo-Saxon volunteers think of this argument?
- d.