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Here are some Constructed language tasks: Join: Constructed Languages WikiProject & add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages/Userbox}} Tag: {{WP conlangs}}, {{Constructed languages}}, and {{Infobox language}} (see WP:CL Templates) Evaluate: Everything in Category:Unassessed constructed language articles Report: Edit wars and deletions Expand: everything in category:Constructed language stubs Requests: Several articles about constructed languages have been deleted for lack of verifiability, independent resources or notability. If you think one of the following subjects meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, don't hesitate dig it up from the graveyard, but don't forget to add proper references: Abakwi language, Ancient Language, Arovën, Baza, Bluddian, Ceqli, Dremlang, Dunia (language), Eaiea, Ekspreso, Esperando, Fasile, Glide, Kotava, Latejami, Musbrek, Or'zet, Romanica, Romanova, Sermo, Siberian, Signuno, Slovio, Sperethiel, Szkev, Thosk, Tokcir, Troscann, Unas, Vorlin; Ill Bethisad, Mark Hucko.

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Contents 1 More tasks 1.1 Red links 1.2 Template 1.3 Order instead of Chaos 2 Gibson Code 3 Project Directory 4 Wikipedia Day Awards 5 Language codes for constructed languages 6 New Esperanto task force 7 Fictional Language article/category 8 Userbox 9 Notice of FAR 10 Kesen 11 Esperanto profanity 12 Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme 13 Ido 14 Arahau 15 Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Constructed language 16 Coordinators' working group 17 J. R. R. Tolkien FAR 18 Article alerts 19 Globish 20 Popular articles subpage 21 Na'vi

[edit] More tasks

Instead of writing articles for the red links quoted above, I there are a few other things we should IMO give priority. I've listed them below. —IJzeren Jan _{In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij} 15:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Red links

First of all, we should really have a discussion about the question whether we REALLY want those articles. If we put up a list of red links in the Portal (a featured portal, mind ;) ), we should at least be able to promise the person who writes it that it will "in all likeliness" survive an AfD. Looking at the list above, I'm far from sure we can do that in all cases.

This is more or less the same issue Kaleissin addressed on Jon's talk page. —IJzeren Jan _{In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij} 15:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template

See here. Jon made a proposal, and I made one based on Jon's. I'm not going to advertise mine in comparison with Jon's. The basic difference is that Jon tries to cover almost all conlang-related articles, while I tried to limit myself to the most important stuff. Anyway, I think we should find an answer to the question which one to use:

• Jon's
• Mine
• Something else
• No template at all.

—IJzeren Jan _{In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij} 15:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I slightly prefer yours to Jon's, but I think it needs to be pruned even further. It's roughly the same size or even larger than some of the smaller conlang articles, which seems excessive. Probably it should just link to the main articles about types of conlang, and maybe some articles about conlang-related matters like Relexification and Translation relay, with very few if any links to specific languages. --Jim Henry 20:06, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Agreed - the point should be to link to general information about conlangs, not to send them to every other conlang page. It's not a webring :) DenisMoskowitz 19:00, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages/Templates and added {{Constructed languages}}. Added 'notable' wording but didn't actually prune the list; someone else please do so. Templates displayed on all pages should be slender and widely applicable. Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 01:38, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Order instead of Chaos

The way the article Constructed language is set up, is actually quite clear. But there are a lot of subpages that overlap, contain double and sometimes conflicting data... In short, I think it would be worth to reorganise this whole thing a little.

• First of all, we have no less than three different descriptions of fictional languages: Artistic language#Genres of artlangs, Fictional language, and List of fictional languages all contain descriptions of what a "fictional language" is. I think that's a bad thing. Since we've decided a while ago to treat fictional languages as a subcategory of artistic languages, this is what I propose: that we move all there's to know about fictlangs to the "Genres of artlangs" section in Artistic language, that Fictional language becomes a redirect to that, and that we merge the List of fictional languages (without its description) with the List of constructed languages.
• The lists themselves are a mess, too. The List of constructed languages contains a list of auxlangs and a list of artlangs (including several fictional languages). Lists of fictional languages can also be found in the List of fictional languages, under Artistic language#Examples of artistic languages, and in the article Fictional language. As if that wasn't enough already, lists of auxlangs are both in the List of constructed languages and under International auxiliary language#Auxiliary languages, again heavily overlapping. At last, we have a list of engelangs at Engineered language#Examples of engineered languages. Since the discussion at Talk:List of fictional languages#Merge proposal doesn't seem to get us anywhere, I think we better discuss it here. My proposal is: move everything to the List of constructed languages, remove all the list stuff from the articles and replace it with a link to the corresponding subsection in the List page.

—IJzeren Jan _{In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij} 15:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, never mind, I've already done most of that. I've merged all lists found under artistic language, fictional language, list of fictional languages, international auxiliary language, engineered language, and the list of constructed languages itself into one renewed and fairly complete list of constructed languages. The other lists have been replaced with a link pointing to the corresponding section of the latter.

I've expanded the description of "fictional language" somewhat in artistic language#fictional languages. Right now, neither fictional language nor the list of fictional languages have any info that can't be found on artistic language or the list of constructed languages. In other words, in my opinion they should both become redirects. That also solves the discussion about a merger of fictional language with its corresponding list.

That's at least my idea. But there is a possible alternative solution: that we move the entire list of constructed languages#fictional languages back to the list of fictional languages and replace it with a link to it. It's not my preferred solution, because there is quite some overlap between fictional languages and other artistic languages and we will soon end up with new doublets again. But before I go on and turn articles into redirects, I'd appreciate some input first. —IJzeren Jan _{In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij} 12:32, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I say you've done a good thing - let's leave it like that. DenisMoskowitz 16:56, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. So, what precisely do you mean? Turn fictional language and list of fictional languages into redirects, then? —IJzeren Jan _{In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij} 18:32, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gibson Code

I added a stub for Gibson Code, which is as far as I can tell a constructed language. If anyone who watches this page knows anything more about it, please help the stub along. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:35, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
• User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
• User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
• User:Badbilltucker/Science directory

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:47, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 14:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:52, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Language codes for constructed languages

I've made a table of language codes for constructed languages. Is this suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia? And if so, where? (I would need to add some words of explanation, of course.) --Zundark 16:35, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Moved to ISO, SIL, and BCP language codes for constructed languages. Please check for articles about language codes for other languages, copy their metainfo, and link both to an from. Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 01:14, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Esperanto task force

I've just created an Esperanto task force to tag, assess, create, and maintain articles on Esperanto in particular. I've already tagged and assessed every known article in Category:Esperanto and all of its subcategories, but the task force is still very basic. I'm trying to create the {{Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Constructed_language_articles_by_quality_statistics}} chart for Esperanto-specific articles, but I'm not sure how to do it. Help would be greatly appreciated. TFCforever

I don't think you can do so easily. The current chart (on the WP:CL main page) is auto-generated by bot. It understands 'quality' and 'importance' (the latter tag is messed up in {{WP conlangs}} - needs fixing; I made {{WP conlangs sandbox}} but something's wrong in it). It doesn't know any other tags TTBOMK. You could make a bot for the purpose, or make a new category.... dunno really. Try asking on WP:1.0? Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 06:59, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fictional Language article/category

The article Fictional language is, for some reason, not the main article for Category:Fictional languages. I don't know how this would be fixed, so I'm alerting you folks. Bowmanjj (talk) 09:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Y Done This could also be done by editing the category page to have a text intro with a link to Fictional language. Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 10:44, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

If any of you guys wants to advertise your membership, I made a userbox for it.

Which is {{User Conlang-Wikiproject}} correct it if you want, I don't really care. Manu-ve^talk pro Ski^contribs 22:40, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Moved to {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages/Userbox}}. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages/Templates. Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 00:35, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

There was a bug in the way the template handled the project membership category, which I've fixed. Pi zero (talk) 13:02, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notice of FAR

Voynich manuscript has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Cheers. Zidel333 (talk) 18:28, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kesen

Can anyone please check the article Kesen language?

It is categorized as "constructed", but it looks more like a standardization of a local dialect, and it has problematic sources too.

Thanks in advance. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 13:46, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Discuss it at Talk:Kesen language#Constructed. In any case, controlled languages are also within the scope of WP:CL. I personally know nothing about it and my Japanese is too poor to comprehend the links given, but the article text does appear to indicate that there was creative authorship involved in some way, even if the language is largely a posteriori from some existing dialect. Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 06:17, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanto profanity

I have begun this urgently needed article. Please feel free to expand it. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 01:30, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 22:03, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ido

Ido has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. D.M.N. (talk) 14:32, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Arahau

It's been proposed to merge Arahau into the main article on its creator, the Russian writer Ivan Karasev. I don't have a dog in this fight; I'd never heard of Arahau or Karasev until today. What do y'all think? Does anyone have evidence of Arahau being independently notable? --Jim Henry (talk) 16:53, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Constructed language

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:29, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Coordinators' working group

Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:11, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] J. R. R. Tolkien FAR

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[edit] Article alerts

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Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 08:59, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Globish

I rewrote Globish, with citations for each statement. I removed all promotional language (although most of the internet links are still there). I believe the content is now non-controversial. The remaining question is whether this is a distinct notable topic, or if it should be merged into another topic. Mrevan (talk) 13:16, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Popular articles subpage

I've added WP:CL to the popular pages list bot. Sai Emrys ¿?✍ 03:50, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Na'vi

Started Na'vi language. Rated it as mid importance, where Volapuk is. You might want to rate it higher than that, considering the attention it's likely to receive--probably more than any conlang apart from Klingon & Eo. kwami (talk) 08:40, 12 December 2009 (UTC)