Re: Invitation to new 'conlang' wiki

On 7/12/06, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:
> I'm not at all fussed by the existence of other 'conlang'
> wikis anywhere, and certainly didn't mean to steal anyone's
> thunder!  It's just that I needed a name, and since I intend
> to use the wiki to describe more than one of my conlangs
> AND would enjoy other people contributing theirs, I couldn't
> name it for just one of them, NOR for myself without causing
> some confusion.  However, I do see that this may have created
> some confusion elsewhere!  I don't know whether I can easily
> rename my PBwiki, tho; nor to what I should rename it, if I can.
My question was not "should your PBwiki be renamed" but "do you need a
wiki of your own in the first place, when there are already several
wikis around which welcome contributions from any and all conlangers".

> IMO, having several distinct, and even distinctive, wikis
> available for the world to tap into conlanging has to be
> A Good Thing.  The more the merrier, I say.
To me, it seems a bit like having several World Wide Webs ... some
information is in CompuServer internal forums, some available under
AOL keywords, some via URLs... a bit like having some information on
WikiA, some on WikiB, some on WikiC, with "internal" linking being
difficult and probably all but nonexistent.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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