[lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 16:59, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> 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?

I think it's a good way to make up words, use them in context, and put them in 
a fairly permanent and easily accessible storage. Words in jbovlaste are in 
the same kind of storage, but jbovlaste records are just definitions. For 
instance, I just made up the word {jicyjutsi'o}, added it to jbovlaste, and 
used it in [[finpe]] on Wikipedia. Hopefully someone will write an article on 
it, which will explain it better than the definition. (I'm not a cladist, so 
I'm probably not the one to write the article.)

phma
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