Re: Langmaker and FrathWiki (was Re: Wikipedia:Verifiability - Mailing lists as sources)

>FWIW IMO: Essentially, registry, encyclopedia, and primer are indeed
>different *functions*, but they need not be different *sites*, and
>making them the latter would cause stubbing and other problems.
>Whereas if they're in the same place, all languages could more readily
>get the a good, thorough treatment.
>E.g.:
>
>Foolang - NPOV description, categorizations, and summary (up for
>editing; author has no special power)
>Foolang/Purpose - author's statement of intent, laying out what the
>language does or doesn't try to do (author has exclusive power)
>Foolang/Commentaries - reviews, comments, suggestions for improvement,
>etc - like a talk page but directed at the language itself, not the
>article, and based exclusively on the Purpose (author has no special
>power)
>Foolang/Orthography - Omniglot-style full description (author has
>exclusive power)
>Foolang/Grammar - full grammar (author has exclusive power)
>Foolang/Vocabulary - full dictionary w/ good glosses, autosorted and
>in standard form (ditto)
>Foolang/Primer - full primer (author has semi-power in that it
>directly references grammar/vocab)
(...)
>And that's the other reason not to separate it. If it's all in one
>place, then you can much more easily get the critical mass (as it
>were) of people needed to make it self-sustaining.
>- Sai
The actual documentation doesn't really need a "critical mass", only the
efforts of the creator... we could do with just a regular interwiki linking
syntax and a consensus on where to put reference pages like case system
descriptions, which would be easier to start from. Better yet, start merging
where the synergy benefits are the largest, like Frath + KneeQuickie + the
conlanging Wikibook.
(You do talk about this stuff on the ZBB too, do you? I haven't visited
there in a while.)

I don't really see the logic in cataloging all scribbled-up stubs of a
language on FrathWiki at LangMaker, either. You wouldn't want my
grammar-less phonology sketches polluting the list, would you? :)

John Vertical