[Foundation-l] Fwd: Tokipona-Wikipedia

Fri Jan 18 17:04:50 UTC 2008

On Jan 18, 2008 11:40 AM, Ian A Holton <poeloq at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I wrote about yesterday on the WikiEN-l, is it really necessary to
> have languages that are not primary languages of at least a decent sized
> group of people. Toki Pona is a contructed language that isn't going to
> enable more to people to edit or read Wikipedia.

I agree with this. New language projects should be created as a way to
faciliate the sharing of information. Small constructed languages
represent little more then code or encryption, and those by definition
are barriers to communications. It would be different if, for some
people, Toki Pona was their natural, primary, or only spoken language.
In that case, toki pona would be the only method of communication for
this hypothetical group of people, and creating a project for them
would help to facilitate the sharing of information.

I see no benefit in creating a project which only a small group of
people edit and nobody outside that group can read.

--Andrew Whitworth