Re: new conlanging wiki

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Christopherson
> > (Or perhaps we have a Wikipedia admin in the audience who would be
> > willing to help?)
>
> Or maybe the Wikipedia clones have copies of such articles?
I gave up on Wikipedia as far as conlangs.  Unless a language is an old
established conlang it will be subject to immediate removal.  Sasxsek was
removed and while I understand the rationale for removing it, the EO and IA
versions do carry articles on Sasxsek that have never been deleted (I
occasionally check them for accuracy and make updates when necessary).  It
just seems their policies are not consistent.

At one time Wikipedia was available in LFN.  They have since removed the LFN
version though the LFN folks have moved their material to Wikia.

My solution was simple.  I switched my web hosting to a Unix host and
installed Mediawiki.  I now have my own Wiki where I'm the boss.  I can
publish anything I feel like.  I do have the beginnings of a site for
conlangs created by others but I 'm not making it a generic site.  It
features only conlangs that I personally found noteworthy, mostly auxlangs
but a couple of others.

I too would like to see Langmaker fully functional again.  It was a great
resource for the conlanging community.  If not, I'd like to see a suitable
replacement fill in that void.  I just have no time or resources to take on
such a project though I probably would create something if I could.  I am
considering a section on my own site where I can link to other conlang's
homepages though not providing any type of detailed information like
Langmaker had.