[lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:44:09AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> 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. 

Good point.  Thanks.

> 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.)

That reminds me: I discovered that jimca isn't the best word for that
sort of thing.  I was working on a word for "hierarchy" or "tree"
(computer science sense).  First version was jicyci'e, but then I
discovered vipsi.

Talk about a word that doesn't get enough usage.

vipsi does a *much* better job of expressing branching, hierachical
relationships than jimca, IMO.

Also IMO, cladistics is jutyvipske, but I'm hardly an expert on the
topic.

I've just added vipci'e, my word for hierarchy, to jbovlaste.  It's
linked from

http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/wiki/Orion's%20Arm%20Story%20Terms?lang=en

-Robin

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