[Wikipedia-l] Languages: crossing a border?

Mon Apr 5 20:16:39 UTC 2004

> To me, it matters not whether a language is artificial or whether it has
> naturally developed over hundreds of years. It does matter, however, how
> many speakers there are, and if we can realistically create a complete and
> accurate encyclopedia with that number of speakers. I'd say a minimum of
> 10,000 active speakers is a requirement for creating an encyclopedia.
> Neither Klingon nor Toki Pona meet that requirement.

Although I share the POV of Erik that we do not really need Toki Pona, I must 
say, that this argument can't be true, sine there are just 2 fuzzy choises: 
eighter the languge is not importand and has not much articles (in this case 
their can not be much interwiki-links to that language) or it is important 
and has much articles.

--Ivo Köthnig