Wikipedia, anyone?

[Ros’ Haruo]

Hazimemasite nado nado, Czobor Francisc-san!

Of course, in theory one could have two or even three CW Wikipedias: say, a 
GRCW, an ECOCW [that's Englishist Chaotic-Orthography...], even a 
Duployan-shorthand Kamloops Wawa one.

I would think though that the ideal would be a GRCW-oriented Wikipedia that 
was welcoming of the efforts of those who didn't know its orthography or 
grammar. In other words, one could post an article in whatever orthography 
one was capable of, and then those with higher levels of fluency and/or 
knowledge could improve one's postings. (After all, in Wikipedias, any 
reader can edit virtually any article.) With the addition of a Wiktionary 
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page>it might be possible to overcome 
these problems.

Since posting that I have discovered that there is a barely begun Wikipedia 
in Cheyenne <http://chy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>, in
Choctaw<http://cho.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>,
in Cree <http://cr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>, in
Muscogee<http://mus.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>,
in Navajo <http://nv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Diyis%C3%AD%C3%AD_Naaltsoos>, 
and in both Inuktitut <http://iu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> and
Iñupiaq<http://ik.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.
(As well as several South American languages.) Actually, most of those 
Wikipedias exist only in theory. My guess is that if a CW one were started, 
with the details of orthography and pidgin-vs-creole to be worked out in the 
living of it, it would not be long before it would be by a fair margin the 
largest of the North American language Wikipedias.

Haruo

On 7/6/05, Francisc Czobor <fericzobor at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Ohayoo gozaimasu, Haruo-san!
> 
> It find interesting the idea to start a CW Wikipedia, and maybe I would
> like to be involved. The question is: what kind of CW should be used? If
> this would be the "official" Grand Ronde CW, I would not dare to get
> involved, since I don't know GRCW and have no sources to study it.
> 
> Francisc
> 
> 


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