Re: Invitation to new 'conlang' wiki

On 7/10/06, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> From:         Paul Bennett <[log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Invitation to new 'conlang' wiki
>  >I'd suggest that someone or ones with a stern hand but a fair eye go
>  >over the extant conlang Wikis, and combine them into a single, slightly
>  >more de-jure, source. I suspect it would be a legthy as well as
>  >difficult task, though. I suggest instead that we hold some kind of
>  >referendum to determine our preferred Wiki (or indeed whether a unified
>  >Wiki is desirable), and each take responsibility to move our own
>  >content to a unified new home, if needed.
>  >
>  >Alternatively, the process could probably be automated with wget,
>  >expect, and perl, though that might be a nightmare to actually
>  >implement.
>
> Any Wiki that accepts Unicode characters (particularly IPA) would be
> acceptable. Some of the Wikis I've seen didn't handle Unicode characters
> properly or at all in the past. They may have improved since then. But
> ASCII is such a severe limitation for language-related pages.
The Conlang Wikia ( http://conlang.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page )
is also run on MediaWiki, so I reckon it should handle Unicode -
though I am not sure.  It hosts a list of derivational methods and a
list of self-segregating morphology methods, along with information
on a number of specific conlangs (including, especially, conlang
articles that got deleted from Wikipedia).

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Jim Henry
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