From arj@nvg.org Tue Aug 10 14:00:53 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:00:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67] ident=[j8p2lXeiERFFSdRzsqJbKzUqt7faekgN]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BudjM-0000As-M7 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:00:26 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.68]:63685 "EHLO hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]" whoson: "-unregistered-") by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no with ESMTP id ; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:58:32 +0200 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:59:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up In-Reply-To: <20040809194407.GU1912@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: References: <200408080634.18420.phma@phma.hn.org> <20040809194407.GU1912@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-archive-position: 8399 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:34:18AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > http://jbo.wikipedia.org > > > What's the point? Using Lojban for something wortwhile, I suppose. > Everyone here speaks another language; why bother to repeat the same > information? The information contained therein need not be repetitions of the information contained within other wikipedias. Wouldn't it be nice for a change if there was some information available in Lojban that was not available in other languages? > More relevantly, I'm leary of Yet Another Project starting up when I > can't even get but two or three people to help with the BPFK on a > serious basis. I wouldn't refer to it as Yet Another Project. Most Wikipedia contributors are casual about their edits, and prefer to add or fix small things at their leisure. Contributing to Wikipedia does not entail any commitment to getting it done. While there is some interlanguage competition on WP, languages with few articles or little activity is not frequently a subject of ridicule. Also, why are you mentioning BPFK? Participating in an activity related to Lojban does not detract from the time available to other Lojban activities. At least not for me. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Twinkle, twinkle little star I don't wonder what you are, For by spectroscopic ken, I know that you are hydrogen. --Ian Bush