Help:Nuts and bolts
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Forum for technical questions (wiki-related or otherwise).
Acceptable use
What is constituted as acceptable use of this Wiki? For instance, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia about virtually anything but is not a dictionary; Conlang Wiki is not a place to host everything about a conlang rather it's more like a portal, etc.
- Well, it's meant to be mainly a place for people to present conlangs. That is, you can put as complete a grammar, lexicon, teach-yourself-whateverian, or phrasebook up here as you like. (Descriptions of concultures and related things also.)
- Also, I would like the wiki to become a place to present topics in linguistics and conculturing, especially for a creator's perspective: i.e., not just a textbook description of, say, parts of speech, but also how conlangers can build on it (what they need or don't need; how natlangs and other conlangs handle them, etc.)
- As for texts in conlangs, I'm not quite sure yet; clearly some illustrative texts would be allowed, although I'm not sure about, say, if someone wanted to undertake translating a Wikipedia and hosting here. [Not because of disapproval of such a project; I'd like to see/do such a thing myself. Mainly because I'm not sure about how page organization would/should be handled.]
- Suggestions of course are welcome; I don't intend to play GodKing here. —Muke Tever | ✎ 13:16, 9 Aug 2004 (PDT)
- Perhaps, via Talk:, this could be a place for discussion of in-construction conlangs as well? I have one of my own, and would like to discuss it with others even as I construct it. - 刘 (劉) 振霖 22:48, 9 Aug 2004 (PDT)
- Absolutely. The wiki format should be great for this. :) —Muke Tever | ✎ 06:38, 10 Aug 2004 (PDT)
- Perhaps, via Talk:, this could be a place for discussion of in-construction conlangs as well? I have one of my own, and would like to discuss it with others even as I construct it. - 刘 (劉) 振霖 22:48, 9 Aug 2004 (PDT)
MediaWiki Upgrade?
Wikipedia and co. have moved to a newer MediaWiki.
- 刘 (劉) 振霖 08:54, 9 Aug 2004 (PDT)
- Yes, they have. But 1.3 is still beta, and as I am not yet well versed in the arcana of databases and the mediawiki software I remain somewhat insecure about the process of switching till a final release is made. (Perhaps if I had more technically-minded helpers around to keep up with things...) —Muke Tever | ✎ 13:16, 9 Aug 2004 (PDT)
