Don't the Klingons need an encyclopedia? Seriously though, I don't
support this. Artificial or not, a language is a language, and, just
about all of those wikis will probably get up to standard eventually.
But, there is a place for it. If after a sebstantial amount of time (a
few years maybe), a wiki doesn't launch, I think it should be
considered failed and gradually phased out, with plenty of time for
people to notice what's happening and possibly make it work out (They
might not have even known about the wiki, even if they speak that
language!), and to download dumps of the database. Wikicities does
host a few wiki encyclopedias for languages that Wikipedia didn't
want.
But, before that process starts, the wiki should be publicised. Maybe
mention it in some sort of announcement, like "XYZ language Wikipedia
has existed for 3 years and still has 6 articles. Please help to
contribute to this Wikipedia, if you know XYZ language. Without more
support, the Inactive wiki closure process will begin in X months.".
Also, if the language is a common'ish language, then the wiki should
not be closed -- it will eventually take off. The wiki closure process
should be very rare.
On 7/28/05, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
"Let all the pretty flowers bloom" Toytoy.
I think Mao said something like that once.
The way I see Wikipedia is just one Encyclopedia with many language
versions. To deny other languages on the basis of not enough members
contributing, or not enough fast growth is to deny a voice to the few
who when added up all together make up a big part of this encyclopedic
project.
Let all the pretty flowers bloom, it adds to the beauty of the garden,
to take these away makes it look like a bed of silk flowers, pretty to
look at from a distance, but up close the spirit is dead. Let the
minor languages coexist with the others, each language brings a shade
of color, and especially, there's beauty of expression and culture
that can only be expressed in one's own mother tongue.
Jay B.
en:User:ILVI
14:20, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
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Apology, but you obviously did not read what I wrote. Please read it again.
I also totally support all the language wikipedias blooming and never asked for any to be
closed (but for a bunch of minor artificial languages admitedly which I think could belong
somewhere in our projects, but NOT as encyclopedias)...
...but for me an encyclopedia is a flower... and a person is a flower as well.
If you let only flowers of a unique color, of a unique size and of a unique flowering
period bloom, then you get a very beautiful but also very flat and boring flower bed
during one month, and a carpet of crushed and drying petals the rest of the year.
When the color of a flower is not pleasant to your eye, you could just avoid having on in
your garden, or avoid looking at it. But destroying it is just not a good solution.
And what I observed on meta was exactly that : the proposal did not please, it could have
been left aside without caring, without giving it any more attention. What I object to is
that the proposal was "closed", not to be discussed any more by *anyone*,
threatened to be *deleted*, and the author treated like a *paria*. This reminds me of
1984. Unique thought and careful removal of people faces on pictures. To avoid anyone
disturbing the perfection of a consensual flower bed.
I do not put glyphosate in my garden to remove all weeds.
anthere
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