User talk:Milaiklainim~enwiki

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Toki Pona Wikipedia
Hi, I'm a sysop from the Vietnamese Wikipedia. I noticed the discussions on your Toki Pona user talk page. Although it may offend some native speakers that your language skills aren't perfect, please don't give up on the little project. I basically got the Vietnamese Wikipedia going with only a rudimentary knowledge of Vietnamese, and it now has over 1,800 articles.

Even if you don't feel brave enough to create more articles and incur the wrath of native speakers, you could always use your knowledge of wikis to improve how the project looks, for example, to encourage more people to contribute.

Small language editions might not become overnight successes without native speakers, but there is certainly room to contribute. I hope that you'll continue to improve the project, because in my opinion, the variety of language editions is the most important feature of Wikipedia.

– Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs, blog) 16:43, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: Tok Pisin Wikipedia and Wiktionary
Good evening.

A little over a month ago I started work on reactivating the Tok Pisin Wikipedia and Wiktionary. As a result, a call has gone out to the members of the WikiProject Melanesia group for a startup group to get together to oversee the TPI reactivation project.

If you have an interest in joining and participating in this group (as I think you very well might have), would you mind going to the main page of WikiProject Melanesia and sign on as another one of the participants in the WikiProject?

I think you might be interested in the fact that one of the proposals (mine) for the TPI Wikipedia is that the Wiki be bilingual, that is, with a close English translation provided for each of the Tok Pisin articles, and vice-versa. I've also suggested that the TPI Wiktionary be bilingual, i.e., providing a page for an English equivalent of a Tok Pisin word, and again vice-versa. I've tested the bilingual concept in the TPI Wikipedia at "Papua Niugini" and a subpage with a test "translation" at "Papua Niugini/English". I also tested the concept in the TPI Wiktionary for the TP word "wanbel", which has a link to the English translation "(to) agree". There's a table in the def. for "wanbel" that has translations of the term in several other languages. I've put links in two of the translations (German and French) which link directly to the page in those languages where the equivalent of "wanbel" is given. I think you'll agree that the close translation concept makes the Wikis exceptionally useful as learning documents for both native and non-native speakers of Tok Pisin. Bilinguality gives both sides an opportunity to write about Melanesian and related subjects, and gives both sides an excellent opportunity to learn Tok Pisin and English by having "Rosetta stones" as translation guides.

If you then go to WikiProject Melanesia/Tok Pisin you'll find the purpose of the reactivation of the TPI Wikis given on that subpage. The subpage has been created for general discussions about Tok Pisin and the reactivation projects. I've created two additional subpages under the "Tok Pisin" subpage, one for discussions about the TPI Wikipedia, and another for discussions about the TPI Wiktionary.

I'm hopeful that together we can form a group of interested authors/editors/tech specialist that will make the TPI Wikipedia and Wiktionary two very useful regional Internet references, i.e., that the primary focus of the Wikis will be PNG and the surrounding regions, Oceania, and the Pacific Rim countries. I believe the TPI Wikipedia should be encyclopedic, but focus closely on the flora, fauna, people and institutions of Melanesia, Oceania, and the Pacific Rim rather than the world in general, as is being done in all the other international Wikipedias.

Well, rather long-winded of me, but that's how I am. So anyway, I do hope that youl join our "TPI reactivation" group. But if not, I hope that, given your interest in Melanesia, that you will at least sign up as a participant in the WikiProject Melanesia group.

Thanks/very best regards. K. Kellogg-Smith 02:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC) (Ken)

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