Kotava is a constructed language. There is yet not article in the English Wikipedia, there is an article in eight other language.. (myth busting; if it is not in the English Wikipedia, it is not in Wikipedia).
At this moment Kotava is not eligible for a Wikipedia, it will not be enabled for editing in OmegaWiki. It does not have an ISO-639-3 code yet. What is special is that there are clear indications that the process for a code is under way. The code is likely to be "avk".
At OmegaWiki there is a Kotava enthusiast who has started a lot of the preparations for another language. It will be given once the code is official. For a Wikipedia, they may ask for a Kotava Wikipedia. With the ISO process under way, the language committee does not have to do anything until the code is granted.
It is great that the language committee has reserved the right to do nothing..
Thanks,
GerardM
3 comments:
Dear Gerard
Thank you very much for your article and your appreciations.
The Kotava community is not very large, only approximately 50 fluent speakers, but very enthusiastic. It evolves apart from the small usual world of the artificial languages, particularly in Africa, and so it's known little and even "ostracised" by much people.
Concerning specifically Wikipedia, that's a small example of this. A complete article on Kotava existed in 2005 in the English section. It was wildly eliminated by "competitors". And all the attempts carried out thereafter for an objective information were systematically blocked. That was also the case in the Spanish section, with a bad absolute faith and a refusal of any discussion. If you have access to the old logs of the administrators and librarians, you will be able to judge some.
Within the small Kotava community, that gave a bad image of Wikipedia. It is besides one of the reasons for which an autonomous encyclopaedia was developed (http://www.kotava.be, currently +2000 real articles, mainly on Africa, the literature, etc).
Also, there is also a similar project with OmegaWiki of linguistic and lexical thesaurus (http://www.tamava.org/avawiki/pmwiki.php) specific to Kotava, but it's not satisfying and difficult to widen. OmegaWiki appears to me much more adapted and evolutionary.
Until the official attribution of the ISO code, I will continue to supplement the general pages of the Kotava portal. Then will start specifically lexical work.
Best regards
Webmistusik
I've started a german article about, because the old one got deleted.
Again, the article on Kotava that you had created in German Wikipedia has been just eliminated without any discussion! That does nothing but reinforce the negative feelings about which I spoke higher. But, it's not dramatic. Wikipedia has to prove still much and that is other thing that the thing of certain limited administrators without knowledge.
Webmistusik
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