--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "James R. Johnson"
<modean52@...> wrote:

Hello James,

this sounds quite interesting, and would be a great effort to
open wikipedia in an already extinct language. I would participate
if a wikipedia in ON will be opened. But first we should check
how able is ON to express modern things? E.g. we should make up the
names of the countries etc. in ON, or by the way how is "Old Norse"
in ON? In the wikipedia every language is marked by its own name,
like Finnish is marked as "Suomi", Hungarian as "Magyar" etc.

So firstly we should start a language "revitalization". At that
point we should note that New Icelandic does exist so our aim is not
to create a "New Norse", because it does exist, but to preserve Old
Norse as it is. Starting a wikipedia in ON would be like a bunch of
Vikings arrive from the 8-12th century into the 21th century and
they start giving names to the objects of the new world.:)
We should also note that there are other ON "speakers" and they
might be interested too. I mean if we start calling "skyscraper" in
ON "AAA" and then other contributors start calling it "BBB", and
others "ABA" then we would never understand each other, and
occasionally "Modern Old Norse" splits into dialects, just as it
split in the 14th century. I wonder how many people speak ON at such
a level to contribute to the wikipedia?

Greetings,

Imre Kovacs

PS. You wrote that ON has a language code (non). Does that mean that
ON wikipedia exists?

PSS. We should also need someone to read the posted articles and
check the grammar mistakes.

>
>Hello,
>
> There's been some discussion on the wikipedia mailing

list about

> the possibility of an Old Norse Wikipedia - a free-content, user-

editable

> encyclopedia in Old Norse! There's already one in Icelandic,

Gothic, and

> Old English. Why not Old Norse? It has a language code (non),

and is very

> rich and expressive. Anyone want to help out by requesting it on

the

> wikipedia mailing list (they want at least 5 people to pledge to
> contribute)?
>
>
>
> James