IRC Transcript of Jimmy Wales’ Talk, 4/26, 8:30 pm

Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia/Wikimedia
Harvard Law School
Tuesday, April 26, 8:30 pm

IRC transcript of the talk

I did not realize when I began taking notes on IRC that I would be posting the transcript. Since people in the channel did not know ahead of time the transcript would become public, I edited it in several ways. I removed comments and discussion not directly related or relevant to what Jimmy was saying. I removed people’s IRC names and the names of people in the room. If you were in either place and would like credit for what you said, please let me know and I will add your name back in. Corrections and commentary welcome.

Log file opened at: 4/26/05 8:33:55 PM

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[8:46:34:] jkbaumga: q: can anyone start a new language?

[8:46:44:] jkbaumga: Jimmy says yes, but there’s probably already a page set up

[8:46:51:] jkbaumga: the man wants to know about an artificial language

[8:47:14:] jkbaumga: Esperanto, interlingua, another language I can’t spell (toquipana?), Klingon

[8:47:21:] hober: toki pona

[8:47:27:] jkbaumga: Jimmy’s afraid of Klingons so he’s not kicking the language out

[8:47:41:] jkbaumga: if you’re interested in starting a new language, do it

[8:47:52:] jkbaumga: er, new language version of Wikipedia, but no vanity languages, please

[8:48:02:] jkbaumga: Esperanto community is large and active

[8:48:24:] jkbaumga: people who are into Esperanto are pretty geeky

[8:48:25:] br: google has klingon and elmer fudd, btw

[8:48:28:] jkbaumga: really into it all

[8:48:29:] br: http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=…

[8:49:09:] hober: note that there’s a (non-official) toki pona wikipedia here: http://tokipona.wikicities.com/wiki/lipu…

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