Not that I want to re-open that very old can of worms, but I firmly believe
that dead languages should only get a Wikisource and/or a Wiktionary. A
Wikipedia on a language that no living soul has native competence in is
ludicrous, and, yes, this includes Latin.

MF-Warburg <[email protected]>, 23 Kas 2020 Pzt, 02:53 tarihinde
şunu yazdı:

> Ugh. In that case I propose to deny eligibility (and then to get rid of
> the Incubator pages).
>
> Am Mo., 23. Nov. 2020 um 01:10 Uhr schrieb Kimberli Mäkäräinen <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> It's just another one of these "these words don't exist in this language
>> so we're going to borrow all of them from Russian" projects, which they
>> even state on their page "Also because all words are not documented in
>> kamassian, all missing words we loaned from the russian language."
>>
>> https://kamassian.webnode.fi/information/
>>
>> That's not revitalizing a language, it's making a mockery of it. It's
>> also the MO used in all the other small Finno-Ugric language incubator
>> projects (or borrowing words from Finnish). Here's another one that he
>> works on (https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/yrk/Main_Page). The
>> front page is in Russian except for a few words of Nenets.
>>
>> The fact that they couldn't wait for even approval does not also bode
>> well.
>>
>> -K
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Langcom <[email protected]> on behalf of
>> MF-Warburg <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, November 22, 2020 7:14 PM
>> *To:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee <
>> [email protected]>
>> *Subject:* [Langcom] Wikipedia Kamassian
>>
>> Here is an interesting request:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Kamassian
>>
>> They already created some pages on Incubator:
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/xas/%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9
>>
>>
>> "The last native speaker of the Kamassian dialect, Klavdiya Plotnikova,
>> died in 1989. Kamassian was spoken in Russia, north of the Sayan Mountains,
>> by Kamasins. There is an attempted revival of Kamassian with sligthly less
>> than 10 people involved" -
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamassian_language
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